Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it might seem too much to assign to the Committee the burden of an entire policy, yet, in selecting a coach, it will be committing itself to a definite stand on this fundamental issue. In choosing the man it will be choosing the policy. For he who comes to take charge at Soldiers Field next fall must come with a clearly mapped outline of the restrictions which Harvard imposes on its desires for victory. Such restrictions there must be. Harvard must not acquire through its new coach a system which places the almighty football on a sacred altar...
Dampening the ardor of a large group of philanthropic workers, President Roosevelt chopped down their sweeping social security program to one subject for early enactment, unemployment insurance. Refusing to allow the national government to assume the entire burden of such a plan, he insisted that this "part of social insurance should be a cooperative federal-state undertaking...
...Securities' stock was worthless, when in 1931, after announcing a net income of $8,000,000 for the preceding year, it continued to pay dividends because "the defendants were at all times keeping up representations to the public that the company was sound and the stock a good buy." Burden of proof lay in two algebraic equations which the court found chalked on a blackboard one morning. The equations...
...nation's 149 Class I railroads, crying protest at what, to them, looked like a gross violation of the "due process of law" provision of the Constitution. The pension system would cost them $60,000,000 in its first year, more later. The extra burden, they declared, would break the back of many a tottering line...
...lastly he tried to allay fears of further excursions by the Government into banking: "Just as it is to be expected that the banks will resume their responsibility and take up the burden that the Government has assumed through its credit agencies, so I assume and expect that private business generally will be financed by the great credit resources which the present liquidity of banks makes possible. Our traditional system has been built upon this principle and the recovery of our economic life should be accomplished through the assumption of this responsibility...