Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches and interviews, delegates to the Crime Conference dwelt on the jury problem. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U.S. Supreme Court flayed "jurors of weak intelligence" and the prevalent exemption from jury duty of "worthy" citizens...
Held by bankers & investors in the U. S. are |70,000,000 of a French bond issue, paying a high interest rate of 8%. Premier Raymond Poincaré and his Government mulled over the problem of retiring them in favor of a new loan at a lower rate to be sought in the U. S. market. Governments who have not yet agreed upon a plan to pay their debts to this country are forbidden to raise funds...
When Thomas Allan Dwyer gained admittance to Fordham University in New York this autumn, he was a problem that deans of practically every U. S. college have encountered. Cripples are usually excellent students. Their will to learn and their abstinence from extra-curriculum work tends to make them so. Yet they are apt to be painful to physically normal undergraduates. Father Charles J. Deane, dean at Fordham, had urged against Student Dwyer's enrollment...
...problem of supplying modern cities with electrical current has become increasingly complicated, according to Assistant Professor C. L. Dawes, who has charge of the experiments. Electrical currents of as high as 220,000 volts are now carried a considerable distance on overhead wires, and currents of 500,000 volts will probably be handled in the near future...
...main purpose in making the trip he announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...