Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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MacArthur himself seemed to thrive under the new burden. Said one of his subordinates, "The added responsibility seems to have peeled ten years from his shoulders." Inside the Dai Ichi Building, once the heart of a Japanese insurance empire, bleary-eyed staff officers looked up from stacks of paper, whispered proudly, "God, the man is great." General Almond, his chief of staff, said straight out, "He's the greatest man alive...
...whether Germany would continue on the right path. It was during the question period, following his calm, factual address, that trouble started. Led by Theodor Goldschmidt, president of Essen's Chamber of Commerce, a group of Germans began firing complaints about high occupation costs, high taxes, the costly burden of refugees from the East, U.S. interference with German trade...
...percent of building costs, the state supplies another 25 percent, and the city is responsible only for the other 25 percent. The professor expressed his belief that, with the support of interested corporation building small planes, the landing strip would start paying its own way almost immediately, with no burden on the local citizens...
...Harry Truman signed it, the bill would, in effect, reverse the Supreme Court's cement decision. It would permit freight absorption, provided that prices 1) are independently arrived at and 2) do not eliminate competition. More important, the bill would take business off the defensive. Where the burden of proof now lies on business to show its innocence of any collusion, the new bill would require the Government to prove beyond doubt that an actual conspiracy to fix prices existed. Thus, even if rising prices should result from actions taken individually by companies, the Government would still have...
...selection of Marshals representing other classes will include Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, of the U. S. District Court; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop, Jr. '32 of Washington, D. C.; William A. M. Burden '27, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Publisher Philip S. Weld '36, of Gloucester; Attorney Richard H. Field '26, former General Counsel of the O. P. A.; W. Nelson Bump '29, vice-president of Pan American Airlines; and Attorney Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, 1941 All-American guard...