Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payable next year; adding also Senator La Follette's proviso for making all income tax returns public records subject to inspection, and imposing a 3? per lb. tax on coconut oil in spite of the President's anxiety to have that tax omitted because of the heavy burden it would put on Philippine commerce with the U. S.; sent the bill to conference for a good long wrangle...
...Conant explained in his talk that he thought it a hardship for a boy who has practically no money to go through college trying to carry the double burden of studies and an outside...
...Conant said that the fact that so many boys of brilliant promise had over-extended their physical reserve by attempting to carry this double burden made it definitely clear that there should be a sufficient number of large scholarships provided by the University so that exceptionally gifted youths be given a means of coming to Harvard. President Conant definitely does not feel that it is wrong for any students to work their way through college. But he does feel that brilliant students should be provided with relief from financial worries so that they may devote all their time to study...
...adopting a ten per cent rise in income taxes by recently reversing its action on the Couzens Amendment, the Senate has done something which will give many thousands of thinking people grounds for apprehension. An added fifty-five million dollar burden of discouragement saddled to the backs of the American tax-payers is an appalling thing to think about, heralded as it has been by the new bonus expenditures. And it is interesting to note that this blanket tax increase was put through on the same day as the adoption of the Finance Committee amendment to impose a processing...
Until very recently concentrators in the Division of Ancient and Modern Languages were forced in their Senior year not only to prepare for Divisionals and a thesis, but were also required to take examinations in the Bible, Shakespeare, and the Ancient Authors. This was patently an unjustly heavy burden and in response to much pressure the Departmental chiefs consented to allow Juniors to take these examinations if they desired. This move is but a minor improvement and the chief evil still remains,--as it is still necessary to take all of these examinations within a week...