Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter manifest their interest; second, that they make the manifestation unmistakable by contributing either time or money to the scheme. Of money small contributions in large numbers are needed. Of time much must be donated to handle the large number of small contributions, as well as to carry the burden of administration, which threatens to swamp the small committee now at work...
...enemies; men of Torgler's courage and intelligence make martyrs not soon forgotten. Acquittal will be a hard degree for the court to issue; Herr Goebbels has not led the German people to expect such a decision. And it will be doubly hard to pin all the burden on Van der Lubbe, after the testimony of the experts that he could not have done it alone. Who helped him? Was there, as one correspondent intimated, a second fire, laid by those who had access to Goering's tunnel? These queries will doubtless be asked anyway, and, allowing due reservations...
...that during such period Your Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom should assume general responsibility for the finances of Newfoundland and should in particular make such arrangement as may be deemed just and practicable with the view of securing for Newfoundland a reduction in the present burden of the public debt, and whereas Your Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have signified their readiness subject to the approval of parliament to accept the recommendations of the Royal Commission and have detailed proposals for carrying those recommendations into effect, now therefore Your Majesty may graciously be pleased...
...corporations and therefore their ability to secure money to construct extensions to and replacements of their existing plants. Although the C.W.A. recovery program is useful at the present moment to help get things going, it is, of course, a temporary measure, and by its extensive borrowing merely increases the burden upon the profits of future industry for years to come...
Interesting sidelights on the work of Phillips Brooks House were obtained at a meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday evening. The greater part of the time was spent in a discussion over the commuter problem, since P.B.H. at present has the burden and responsibility of feeding a large number of these men in rather inadequate quarters at lunch time...