Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I became chairman, I expected to bear philosophically the usual burden of criticism and abuse. . . . No man in political life has ever been subjected to more unjust and unwarranted attacks. ... I am conscious of my own integrity. I have never been accustomed to give ground under fire, every personal inclination I have is to fight this thing to a finish. . . . In the past it has been the policy of party leaders to maintain a solid front under enemy fire but as this has not been the policy in the present case, I have reached the conclusion, putting the interest...
Explaining this unusual and sweeping move, the company announced it to be "consistent with a retrenchment policy which the current depression in business demands. Labor has already contributed substantially and it was felt to be only fair that salaried employes should also bear some of the burden. The Chrysler organization is determined to operate its business on a profitable basis under whatever conditions may exist." To stockholders who had seen Chrysler earnings for the first quarter dwindle 98% to a paltry $180,000, this last sentence made pleasant reading...
...will be the aim of the department to encourage greater activity and effectiveness on the part of the state and local governmental agencies in enforcing the liquor laws. . . . It was not contemplated that the Federal Government would assume the entire burden of enforcement . . . or create an enormous police force. . . . True, there is no legal way of compelling state legislatures to enact enforcement statutes or to compel state authorities to aid in enforcement. ... In those states which have repealed enforcement statutes and whose authorities do not perform a proper share of the work, there will continue to be grave deficiencies...
Each year The Lambs present their public Gambols, disport themselves for the financial benefit of the club. The Lambs might see fit to make additional use of their "$44,000,000 worth of talent," Shepherd Royle observed, to relieve their present economic burden; in other words, perhaps, give a benefit...
Purchase by Forum afforded faltering Century honorable refuge from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn...