Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Princetonian, commenting editorially, sees that "a difficulty in ratification is sure to come" over the above provision. And its prophesy while slightly pessimistic is extremely same. The perfection of such a plan as would be instituted by this Constitution would be tested by every new problem that arose. No general dogma could include the variances of student life, since each question obviously must be faced with views as to its immediate causes and consequences. Set limitations could hardly be expected to deal equably with the several and almost innumerable facets of university government...
...that John Caldwell Calhoun, then Vice President of the U. S., wrote "The South Carolina Exposition," a political thesis which maintained that the Federal Government was usurping rights inherent to the individual states. Calhoun's protest was inspired by the high tariff law of 1828. Later the tariff problem was swallowed up in the secession issue and the state rights doctrine temporarily crumbled at Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House...
...Thousands of them are in the line of flood waters . . . and they are proving our biggest problem; but we are going to save them whether they like...
Said Herbert C. Hoover authoritative, conservative, in charge of flood relief: "There was never in our history such a calamity as this flood, which before it ends will have, I fear, involved more than half a million of our people, creating a problem of relief and rehabilitation the magnitude of which it is scarcely possible to exaggerate. I sometimes wonder if the people of our country realize just what this calamity is. Do they know that before the flood recedes more than half a million Americans, men, women and children, will have seen their homes swallowed up in the deluge...
Unemployment is still the most vital and vexing problem which confronts the British Government. But, to Premier Baldwin came reassuring statistics last week, telling that Britons unemployed now number only 998,300-a decrease of 23,428 within the previous week, and 577,599 within the past twelve month...