Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommendation that the number of needy men admitted to college be limited in order to lighten the burden of worry and overwork which is now being carried by students is made today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, secretary for Student Employment, in an article appearing in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "College and the Poor Boy." By the extension of such a plan of limitation, he believes that although the gap between public and private institutions of higher learning may be widened, the state universities may be brought to introduce a large number of practical courses for those...
...burden upon the taxpayers necessitated by such a government expenditure would be offset by other advantages. All classes of laborers are given work. Furthermore, a naval program is a stimulus to a wide variety of industries, so that employment is possible for the man who works in the mines, the lumber yards as well as the steel mills and many others." Mr. Adams cited the example of France, which he said was now the most prosperous nation in the depression. "France has made tremendous outlays for army and navy. The question is not merely an economic one, for the United...
...does not balance; the loaning bankers demand security in the form of better government at a lower cost; and, of course, Chicago had seen nothing but deep red since 1928. Heavy fixed debts, relics of the anterior period of over-expansion plus the increasing tax delinquency problem, and the burden of welfare work and relief have all combined to effect this unhealthy financial distress...
...school,". . . people used to call me yellow." And thirdly, the peace-loving masses are mostly, women, and talk incessantly of "women and children." If the cause of World peace has a strong argument today, it is to point out the phenomenon of post-war Depression, and the burden to the tax-payer of preparations, operations, reparations, and veterans legislations. This last "Men Must Fight" fail...
...sent still another legislative request. "As a further and urgently necessary step in the program to promote economic recovery," read the President's nth special message to Congress, "I ask for legislation to protect small home owners from foreclosure and to relieve them of a portion of the burden of excessive interest and principal payments incurred during the period of higher values and higher earning power...