Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets of the world and if a way is to be found to get money...
College Coach (Warner). The problems that confront Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien) in this picture-an attempt to buy real estate and sell it to Calvert College for a new stadium; the interest Mrs. Gore (Ann Dvorak) shows in a ringer halfback; the resentment of Calvert's best player (Dick Powell) when he gets passing marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into...
...said that he had read the latest report of the Student Council dealing with the House Plan, and was planning to give it further careful study. He indicated that at present he was engaged in a study of all the important educational and financial problems which necessarily confront a new President, and that it would probably be many month before any action could be taken in regard to matters of interest to the undergraduate body. He stated that in the meanwhile either he or Dean Hanford would be very glad to discuss with the Student Council or individual undergraduates...
...this. For although he assumes the unfortunate manner, in such cases, of one imparting state secrets, his original intent encompassed far more than a superficial reduction of Messrs. Samuel Eliot Morison and James Truslow Adams. "The People's Choice" was inspired by the logical connection between the problems which confront Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles of governmental control, through oligarchy, democracy, to plutocracy. Democracy, for the West "an inescapable condition...
...instructors of first year courses, have been appointed Freshman proctors for the coming year and will reside in the Freshman dormitories. The proctors are selected each year for their interest and former participation in college athletics and other activities as well as for their knowledge of the problems which confront first year men and their ability to aid in solving them...