Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step came as a direct result of the memorandum, it by no means solved the advisory problem: for the most efficient system, coordination of effort between the Dean's Office, P. B. H., the Hygiene Department, and Advisers was deemed to be essential. In view of Dean Leighton's burden and in line with undergraduate opinion, as expressed in the Crimson, an assistant to the Advisory Board was appointed...
This brings up for revision the most distinctively Communist contribution to Russian finance. It is a Communist contention that the crushing burden of taxes borne by workers under a capitalist state is largely lifted in the Soviet State by turnover taxes. As a capitalist buys materials and adds a profit on to his costs before selling them, the State adds a turnover tax. Thus in Russia the State sells its own wood to its own sawmills, sells its lumber to its furniture factories, sells its furniture to the public-and collects a tax on each of these turnovers...
...wholesome family newspapers, mostly in upstate New York, promptly accepted: ''No American could refuse the nomination for the Presidency." He even offered a platform: "I should reverse the Roosevelt policy and compose a constructive program to restore prosperity, bring employment to the idle, lessen the burden of taxation and encourage business and the growth of abundancy...
...diligent and ambitious and so I am sure to make my way anywhere, and you may be certain, that I should not be a burden...
...farmer who wants to do so may grow all the cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...