Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden falls on him because Madam Secretary Perkins is, in the eyes of Labor, an outsider. If she should retire, her job might be given to one of Franklin Roosevelt's liberal friends, such as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, or it might be given to Ed McGrady...
...himself alone on a sea of learning and has no one to whom to turn for guidance. In many courses the section-hands, unable to take time from the press of research, are cold and unsympathetic to their struggling pupils, and the Freshman advisors, who ought to shoulder the burden of helping out in time of trouble, have repeatedly been shown to be advisors only in name. As a result, the fire of learning, which the University should encourage in the hearts of even its youngest members, has been smothered instead of fanned...
...deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most of it anyhow. But it would be an indirect tax; the ordinary employe would not be aware of his "pay cut," and at least part of the burden would be shifted to farmers and other unbenefited consumers...
...employes enough to compensate for the 1% pay-envelope tax. Said Fred H. Mills: "Following the tremendous vote of confidence given the President by the nation, we are sure that business is going to improve considerably. We believe that our company will be more able to bear the added burden of the tax on wages than our employes and we are, therefore, absorbing their share. We think that our workers should not have to worry about a tax on their wages...
...Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took her yen off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) begun to find the effects of that shot in the arm wearing off. Several European countries have recently given themselves such shots in competition. Last week Czechoslovak firms, their currency freshly...