Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convertible note issue, would be paid only if earned. Net result would be to cut fixed charges from $25,966,000 to $7,503,000 per year. Thus while MOP would avoid insolvency in lean years by paying only fixed charges, it would be weighted down by an increasing burden of contingent charges during prosperous years. Finally, the plan would reduce the common holdings of Allegheny Corp., top Van Sweringen holding company, in MOP from 63% to about 40%, the preferred from 27% to 26.2%. Hopefully the Van Sweringens described their plan as an "earnest effort to respect the rights...
...been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...
...told newshawks: "It was all magnificent. I did not see any incident or anything to mar the beautiful warmth of the reception." What Minister Owsley was so careful to explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...
...strongly urge that the proceeds of this tax should be specifically segregated and applied, as they accrue, to the reduction of the national debt. By so doing, we shall progressively lighten the tax burden of the average taxpayer, and, incidentally, assist in our approach to a balanced budget...
...Jehovah has expressly declared the League of Nations a fraud and a snare and it shall be destroyed"; when he reminded them that though Satan's time on earth is up, he "refuses to get out" and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford's rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with a trace of Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. "My language." said the Judge, "is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea." Thereupon he produced from...