Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vanished to summon Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, tell him what had happened. On the train taking him South, the President-elect reflected with satisfaction on the Red Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which he may drive in return for downward debt revision: lower tariff on U. S. exports to the British Empire; stipulation that Britain return to the gold standard...
...becoming increasingly apparent that this exalted office is a sacrificial one, made more so by the unjust and unreasonable criticism of biased partisanship. The time has come for Congress to limit presidential administrations to one term of five or six years, and thus lighten the burden of presidential cares. Especially would this put an end to the undignified spectacle of our President's "electioneering" rôle every four years, and make this great office one of genuine dignity and high service, devoid of many imperfections that at present mark our Presidents as martyrs to an antiquated system...
...death angered Calvin Coolidge's White House physician, square-cut Colonel James Francis Coupal. who last week cried as many a time before he had cried: "No nation in the world puts such a burden on its ruler as America does. ... It is a man-killing job." But he admitted: "He [President Coolidge] himself said that he was in better physical condition when he left the White House than when he entered it." Only six of the 29 past Presidents were younger than Calvin Coolidge's 60 years when they died, and three of the six died...
...this danger is imminent, the balancing of the budget should certainly be deferred another year, to allow the burden to be at least slightly lessened. But there is something more fundamental which has evoked the whole problem. In common with nearly all colleges of its own type, Harvard's athletic program is financed almost entirely by football ticket sales. The policy has been accepted for years, yet in times of depression, its essential weaknesses are strongly revealed. It leads to excessive ballyhoo, in the attempt to raise revenue; it has put all the stress on gate receipts, the most uncertain...
...tonnage in hogs, a bounty sufficient to raise the prices of farm products as compared with industrial products to the level of twenty years ago. This bounty in turn will be collected from the millers packers and other processes of the four products, who will pass the burden on to the consumer in the form of higher prices...