Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annoyed by persistent rumors, the President let it be known that his Cabinet is not split on the Chinese problem, that Secretary of State Kellogg has the situation well in hand and is not going to resign. Furthermore, said the President, even if Secretary Kellogg should resign, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will not be appointed to succeed...
...struck during the general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...
...text book of morality which should be chosen or its proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems to contemplate. Finally we are led to wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity of honest labor. Will they be shown what ravages idleness wrecked on the civilizations of antiquity, or will they by any chance be taught...
...several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential market for United States goods. Thus commercially it would benefit us considerably to recognize Russia. Furthermore I think it will be impossible to settle the strife in Europe until the Russian problem is solved. I can not possibly see how our many efforts towards world peace can be made effective unless the Russian problem is settled...
AFTER she had finished "The Little French Girl" and was engaged in the pleasant occupation of watching it become a best seller, Mrs. de Selincourt found herself facing a problem which meets every successful novelist--the problem of repeating a triumph. Accordingly, she wrote "The Old Countess" and thereby solved the difficulty very nicely. Those who were pleased with the former book will derive, just as much enjoyment from this...