Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breath about bankers' "plots" to run the country ruthlessly, and in the next breath they denounce capitalism because it lacks a plan -a "plot" - for running the country at all. But a bankers' "plot" to run the country-or the lack of it- is a very difficult thing to prove, even for a Senate committee aided by a Pecora. Unlike the industrial monopolies of 1907, financial power in 1933 is not a thing to be established by yes & no testimony. The social implications of such prestige as is bound up in a House of Morgan cannot readily...
...normal for mothers to have cinema ambitions for their children and Karl Moldrem's baby orchestras are calculated to develop stage presence, self-confidence. His first baby band, in Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch 'cellos, 48-inch double-basses. Karl Moldrem took his idea to Hollywood where film companies made "shorts" of his babies, publicized them so widely that there are now 600 baby orchestras...
...Capital would be extremely difficult to raise for the multitude of middle-sized honest companies. Thus most middle-sized bankers would quit the underwriting business...
Whether Casey actually did ask the doctor if the boy were dead or not will be difficult for the investigators to ascertain, as the accounts of the witnesses vary widely. What may be assumed, however, is that Chief Casey's concern over the expense of the oxygen hardly exceeded his interest in saving the life; Casey's real reason for calling off the rescue appears to be the same one which has prompted him to interfere on several other occasions -- he is determined to discredit and to make as difficult as possible the work of the rescue squad...
...CRIMSON Monday the problem of student-waiters in the Houses was suggested as pertinent for consideration in the Student Council's annual report. Patently, the depression has increased the number of men who must earn all or part of their college, expenses, and has made it inversely difficult for them to find employment either within or outside the University. The administration's somewhat ineffectual attempt to sidestep the whole question of employing students in the dining halls by the creation of special and often artificial jobs has been of some help in the past year; but now for every four...