Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned for cotton farmers agreeing to crop reduction. In addition, for producers of rice, fruit, peanuts and milk, AAA arranged marketing agreements which were calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration. And during the month, FCA announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which $50,000,000 had been repaid. This machinery, taxed to capacity, was now to be extended still further. Into the White House marched Secretary...
What will happen is that the Labour leaders will be forced either to challenge the capitalist system, or to be shown up for what they are: radishes, red on the outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that...
...colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel against Prohibition. In 1919, on a Republican ticket with Socialist backing, he was elected President of New York's Board of Aldermen. He was returned to Congress in 1923. Back in New York politics...
Compared to the burden the moss-encrusted universities of the Old World have to bear, three hundred years is but as a day; but in a civilization that has lustily risen--and, say some, is already declining--in just that span, Old Harvard has a right to indulge itself in habits that have grown up with the years, habits that have become traditions, habits that, perhaps, have lost all trace of their original reason. More than any other college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair...
...current New England Quarterly, Professor E. K. Rand has undertaken to investigate and annotate Harvard's earliest commencement exercises. He has entitled his article, "Liberal Education in Seventeenth-Century Harvard," utilizing this apparent anachronism as a graceful method of introducing the vir liberalis and the trivium-quadrivium. The burden of Professor Rand's writing is to outline the development of those courses which President Dunster classed as "Technologicae," a term derived from the Greek technai and meaning, according to Professor Rand, the "arts as a whole." What would otherwise have been a pedantic display of mossy notes becomes, under Professor...