Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organized in Los Angeles last January. The Utopian Society purports "to give people economic education." Its aims include: 1) Tax reform, with heavier burden on the rich. 2) All persons to be educated until they are 25, work from 25 to 45, then retire. 3) Workers to be paid in nontransferable "units of buying power." Membership is highly secret, members being designated by number. Headquarters claims 200,000 members in 15 major cities and 400 towns. Initiation fee is $3; dues of 10? a month are expected if the member can pay. Neophytes pass through a series of mysterious "cycles...
...this latter case the fans will watch the unusual sight of a duel between two Grade. A pitcher-captains. Both Parker and Loughlin have seen carrying about 75 per cent of the pitching burden on their respective outfits this season and both are quite a stretch ahead of the No. 2 men, their understudies. Bernard Rankin, a Sophomore will probably be Parker's alternate...
...speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process of recovery, I am greatly hoping that repeated promises that private investment and private initiative to relieve the Government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled. We have not imposed undue restrictions upon business. We have not opposed the incentive of reasonable and legitimate private profit. . . . We have sought to put forward the rule of fair play in finance and industry." Opponents: ". . . There are a few among us who would...
...American people would not be disposed to place an impossible burden upon their debtors but are nevertheless in a just position to ask that substantial sacrifices be made to meet these debts." In short, the President stands where Congress stands, ready to demand debt payment, but leaving the amounts open to negotiation...
...Virginia's Senator Glass: "I have always been in favor of radical adjustment of the War Debts. We sold munitions of war to the Allies at unconscionable prices. It is asked that our Allies make 'substantial sacrifices to meet these debts.' Already the British bear a burden of taxation so great that a Congressman who suggested it in this country would probably be lynched...