Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaintiffs, the Methodist Episcopal Church will be branded as having tried, without success, to get out of a just obligation. . . . On the other hand, if it should be found necessary to decide this case in favor of the defense, the Church would be relieved of a great financial burden, it is true, but it would be charged, in popular opinion, with having avoided, through technical means, legal liability for what was an undoubted moral duty, and it would darken the way of the Church forever. . . ." Last week Judge Fee handed down his decision, found the Oregon Conference of the Methodist...
...currently a subject nation under alien rule. 2) This rule is administered by a cabal of capricious tyrants whose sole purpose is to reduce the natives to a state of regimented slavery. 3) These irresponsible foreigners, having debased the currency, are now wilfully bankrupting the country. 4) The burden of debt and taxes is intolerable. 5) Local laws and customs are being flouted, ancient moral standards ridiculed, the pristine character of the working classes deliberately undermined. 6) Civil liberties, personal freedom, individual initiative and enterprise have virtually disappeared. 7) The U. S. would once more be a happy prosperous land...
Prime relief problem last week was whether the dole could be ended simply by saying so. Almost a year ago Harry Hopkins ordered all states and communities to shoulder the burden of their unemployables by Feb. 1 (TIME, Jan. 7). When he issued that same order last week, the question remained as to what the Federal Government would do if some states and communities were unable or unwilling to obey. "When some of the people of a great and wealthy country are suffering from starvation," President Roosevelt declared at Atlanta, "an honest government has no choice...
...Gordon Gilkey, Jr. '39, has volunteered to assume the burden of the Red Cross work which is to be done by the committee this year. His duties largely will consist of acting as a chauffeur in the House beach wagon twice each week...
English A. has always been regarded by those unfortunate enough to take it as a lifeless burden, and the present attempt of University Hall to reduce the membership in this intellectual chain gang shows a liberality which will be dully appreciated by incoming Freshmen. In the past the only ones to escapade the penalty were those prep school students who had achieved an honor grade in their College Board examination in English, this system being a distant discrimination against that large group entering under the highest seventh plan...