Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allowing for a few exceptional trades and permitting longer hours on the payment of time and a half for overtime, it should not be difficult to define a general maximum working week. Allowing for appropriate qualifications and general classifications by administrative action, it should also be possible to put some floor below which the wage ought not to fall. There should be no difficulty in ruling out the products of the labor of children from any fair market. And there should also be little dispute when it comes to ruling out of the interstate markets products of employers who deny...
...President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term...
...difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though...
From observations of witnesses who have described the appearance and dimensions of the fire, it would be difficult to assume that such a ball was the cause...
Harvard University has a great responsibility towards the Freshman Class in seeing that the Class as a whole overcomes the difficult barrier between school and college as successfully as possible. The gap between prep and high school and college standards of instruction is a large one; consequently the transition is difficult...