Word: overburden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime tenet in President Hoover's international credo is, as all the world now knows, limitation, of armaments. He has hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress...