Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first can and should be accomplished without any undue financial burden to the University. A doctor or doctors should be employed who will devote their entire time to giving medical advice and attention to students. If competency replaces incompetency, careful diagnosis replaces careless and indifferent examination, and thoroughness replaces haste, a great deal will be accomplished. Perhaps, then, replacement of Stillman Infirmary can await the day when some philanthropist may see fit to provide Harvard with new facilities for caring for the sick. But some drastic reform and reorganization must take place now and University Hall should undertake some investigation...
...Cuban waters or land marines. At the same time word has been received from Ferral that Spain is sending a cruiser to protect her, nationals. The Administration's policy raises the question of the extent to which it takes seriously the Monroe Doctrine. Under that theory we assumed the burden of protecting European capital and citizens in this hemisphere. If the government feels that Pan American relations require a hands off policy what will be the attitude of the British, Spanish, and other governments that have material and human interests at stake...
...stagnation be valid, and if it is true that relief outlays such as this can be paid for when happy days return, it behooves New England communities to permit their destitute to be cared for by a method that will permit payment of the debt to be a national burden. We do not lose sight of the fact that one part of the country can not recover separately from the whole. Nor should sectional prejudice be raised at any time. But if the purchasing power of the unemployed be of such national concern as to justify such a large percentage...
...stepped in and fixed prices and wages, thus helping industry last through its troubles. When banks were weak, we lent money to them, we bought their assets, we guaranteed their deposits. But we cannot do this forever. Now is the time for private industry and banks to take the burden off our shoulders. The government has done its part. Let industry muster its courage, take risks again, expand...
Awake and Sing! (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, Inc., producer) is an earnest investigation of the home life of a family of Bronx Jews. The burden of Playwright Odets' lament is that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine...