Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That's the sort of thing that makes the enforcement of laws difficult. If they had been Federal officials when the picture was taken, they would not be now. I would remove them in ten minutes. This shows a complete lack of a sense of responsibility or of propriety and common sense. The negligence of these people may result in the death of some honest person...
Loew's State--"Queen Christina". Greta Garbo shows herself still capable of giving a sensitive interpretation of a difficult part with the aid of Mammoulian. Well worth seeing...
...Europe. Granting that Insult was guilty of a certain amount of fraud in his transactions--and the evidence on this point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received a prison sentence it would almost surely be a death sentence. The real crime of which Insull is guilty is not of fraudulently manipulating securities but of doing it unsuccessfully...
...central Arabia in the small section of inhabitable land which there is in the country. This district is little known archaeologically, however, but exploration may discover other traces of the Sabaeans. Unfortunately, they were little addicted to writing tablets telling of their actions, and this makes it much more difficult to trace their history. Mention of the Queen of Sheba herself has never been found and may never be found. She may be entirely a fictitious character...
...addition to solving the difficult problem of what to do with the apparently useless islands this latest effort of the administration should open to the United States a large supply of good, cheap rum. This will undoubtedly be a lever with which the government may force the distillers to lower their exorbitant prices, for the rum will be admitted duty-free and should be sold at a moderate price. With a supply of cheap rum available the few large companies now controlling the whiskey traffic should soon be brought to their knees and forced to sell their products...