Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like sort is the problem that has long confronted the Federal courts and square-jawed Thomas James Walsh, Arch-inquisitor of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional...
...fulfillment of all disarmament conditions, then we will be only too pleased to go. . . ." ". . . When he [Dr. Stresemann] takes a walk in the olive garden of Locarno he has the habit of stretching out his hand to receive rather than to give." Significance. At one stroke the problem of the Occupied Rhineland has been officially removed by the occupying Power from the plane of military security to that of financial security...
French hopes that she will offer to do so were voiced, last week, by M. Briand: "This problem of peace should be linked up with that of reparations, and I hope that the year 1928 will not close without a settlement of the grave question as a whole." Expression of such "hopes" amounts to giving notice that the whole structure of interallied debts and German reparations must shortly be readjusted. That is the view of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, who has recently conveyed his conclusions to the Cabinets at Washington, London, Paris and Berlin (TIME...
Today, according to reports, the Corporation will take definite action on the Stadium enlargement problem, for some years under discussion, and this year, by the action of the Boston Building Commissioners, made of immediate moment...
Individually the college student is nothing, but collectively he is a problem. As an individual he receives only routine attention; as a class he receives all sorts of gratuitous comment, mostly unfavorable. Individually he only wears clothes, but collectively he sets fashions, or at least such is the opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will...