Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show it. He buckled doggedly down to work with pencil, paper, Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Deputy Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. This week he sent a special message to Congress asking for $1,500,000,000 to carry next year's relief burden, and acknowledging that his midwinter estimates of fiscal position would no longer hold up because income taxes and other revenue had fallen $604,000,000 under expectations. He now foresaw a deficit on June 30 of $2,557,000,000, boosting the national debt to a peak of $35,500,000,000. With revenue estimates...
Nevertheless, it does not appear altogether fair that alumni should be asked to back without stint a program which not even all the students wholeheartedly support, since the students are not incapable of hearing a small part of the burden. Only hearty cooperation between the undergraduates, in voluntarily supporting the H.A.A. while in college, and the alumni, in contributing toward a permanent fund, can bring an ultimate solution to the athletic program of the University...
Unfortunately there are only a limited number of higher-paid, life-appointment positions available in the Department; conversely the services of a larger number of younger men are required to carry the tutorial and instruction burden. It is the stated policy of the University not to let any younger man hold an position at Harvard for more than six or eight years or beyond the age of about 35 unless the man is definitely slated for a higher position, it being felt that it is unfair to the man to keep him here at a low salary when he might...
...result of an embolism, and the serum had nothing to do with it, but the young doctor doesn't know that. When the dead man's widow accuses him of murder, and all the newspapers more or loss take up her ery, he is made acutely conscious of the burden of his responsibility...
...welfare of the people. . . . The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well-being but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community. What these workers lose in wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The bare cost of living must...