Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course is concerned with the problems that confront the national government of the United States and is conducted by means of lectures and weekly papers. Two lectures a week are devoted to an analysis by the lecturer of contemporary problems, last year one a week being devoted to the New Deal, and the third period is utilized for class discussion of the research done for the weekly paper...
...disconsolate Republicans are concerned, their task is far more difficult than that of the Democrats, and their responsibility to the country fully as great. Confronted with a well-nigh hopeless minority in Congress, the Republican party has nevertheless a real opportunity for reorganization and renewed strength as the only articulate Opposition likely to be heard in America for some time to come. It is the only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus...
...this group is to function effectively, they must meet their Freshmen often. During the opening months of College, advisors and Freshmen should meet once a week, in order to solve early the problems which inevitably confront the newcomer. After the November Hour examinations, monthly meetings could be held, devoted to the analysis of difficulties which the Freshman finds it impossible to solve without experienced assistance...
...nation, and we must ask and answer, 'What caused it?' When considered at first glance, it might appear that the causes are the World War and the world-wide depression which followed it. But these causes are not adequate to explain the political and economic phenomena which confront us, we must look deeper. The root-causes are, I think, changes in the race composing the nation and in the environment in which we live. The best form of government for any people at any time is the child of race and environment...
...utilities are apparently boxed. A shot of still bigger volume or higher prices or both might help the industrials to win. An expansion in carloadings would send in the railroads at a walk, and there is some public sympathy for their talk of higher rates. But power & light companies confront not only regulatory bodies dead set against a rate rise but also public agitation for lower rates...