Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...
...President's office was crowded with Cabinet members and ranking Congressmen. Facing Chief Justice Fred Vinson, George Catlett Marshall took the oath as Secretary of State. Beaming Harry Truman stepped forward to shake his hand, said warmly that he appreciated "very much your willingness to accept this burden." Secretary Marshall replied gravely: "I'll do my best...
...whom China's medical burden falls most heavily is 56-year-old Dr. J. Heng Liu, a onetime director of PUMC. Harvard-trained Dr. Liu was China's public health chief before the war, and Army Surgeon General during the war, is now chief medical officer of CNRRA (a cousin of UNRRA) and medical director of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China...
...When we stop to examine the facts we find that in every parish and diocese it is largely the few who bear the burden and heat of the day. . . . The churches are at a tremendous disadvantage, for we are in essence waging a desperate spiritual warfare in a most critical period of history, at the same time carrying a vast weight of nominal Christians who, as someone has remarked, having been once inoculated by weak religion, seem to be impervious to the real thing...
...particular mystery attaches to these figures. Any flat percentage cut in a progressive tax must, by simple arithmetic, lead to a regressive result in terms of income. Such anomalous consequences, utterly contradictory to the general principle of progressive taxes, can be avoided either by reducing the tax burden via higher exemptions, or by providing for larger percentage tax reductions in the lower brackets. The former course has been advocated by Representative Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications...