Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other eyes saw the burden of misery growing, saw private charity breaking down in city after city, county after county, state after state. On every side voices, angry or august, cried that the situation was unparalleled, demanding unparalleled action. But Herbert Hoover clung to the philosophy of the good neighbor, continued to translate it into official do-nothingness. It was for this, in no small measure, that millions of citizens rose up in November 1932 to sweep him from office...
Replied Chairman Baker, in true Hooverian vein: "Any extended system of Federal relief, however necessary, is attended by dangers..... It is our eager hope, as we know it is yours, that soon the entire burden of relief may be returned to local shoulders. . . . We venture to hope that this winter will see us past the edge of the crisis...
Accordingly, they should not be forced to suffer the entire extra financial burden which the H.A.A. feels must be borne by the student body. Perhaps a small sum from each Freshman as well as upperclassman would result in a more fair distribution of this added cost...
...week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care if a strike were called, for many millmen felt that an involuntary shut-down would avert overproduction. To Mr. Sloan the threat of a strike was not so much a grievous danger as just one more hardship to be borne...
...needed to put the unemployed to work and take the burden of relief off the backs of the Tax Payers; that he was no radical, believed in Democracy, was abjured by Communists; that he was not to be confused with Sinclair Lewis; that upon election he would instantly pardon Tom Mooney. Lean, white-haired, hollow-eyed, he had no barkers to drum up audiences for him. Instead he charged admission fees, usually 25¢, for his meetings, drew greater crowds than any other candidate...