Word: unburdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Jesse Jones, whose Reconstruction Finance Corp. has made immense railroad loans, had the ear of President Roosevelt. To the White House the President soon afterward called newshawks to unburden himself. First, he said, he had discussed the advisability of the RFC making further small railroad loans. Asked if the Government would do anything else for the lines, he declared that the major responsibility rested on the ICC, that rail-road economics is one of the most serious problems facing the nation, that he did not believe any member of the ICC yet had a good solution for the problem...
...hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during a cloudburst. Before the night was over Myron had backslid as far as he could go. But when he offered to marry her she said he was too mixed-up in his mind...
This arrangement could be modified greatly in the event of an increase in gate receipts which would alleviate the necessity for it. Until such an occurrence the ten dollar levy on first year men would allocate the expense in a highly unburden-some fashion...
...long did it take Sir Cyril to unburden himself on Chrysler ethics that final awards were not announced until next day. Chrysler Corp. and the five defendant executives, including Mr. Chrysler and Mr. Hutchinson, were ordered to pay the plaintiffs a total of $270,000, plus costs of perhaps another...
...extreme simplicity with which President Conant was inaugurated, to-length upon the aims and policies of his administration, has left many with the impression that in this morning's address to the freshmen the new president will unburden himself on such terms as "creative scholarship" and "requiring too much and expecting too little," and that he will outline the chief reforms which he hopes to accomplish...