Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First problem was the courtroom's seating capacity. Solution: Carpenters banged and hammered, put up a six-tier bleacher, collected $417. Cross-pieces of white pine, at 16-inch intervals, marked off the benches into 86 numbered seats. Each prisoner had a number corresponding to his seat so that a roll could be called and absentees quickly detected. Lawyers for the defendants vainly objected to the cramped quarters of their charges...
...Second problem was getting a jury. With 81 defendants, the trial seemed likely to last two months or more. Veniremen viewed the case with alarm. On the first day of the trial there were so many veniremen and so many accused that the prisoners had to move out into the corridors. The Government summoned 106 veniremen before a jury could be selected...
...prevention enforcement is the attitude of the press. If the majority of the newspapers should tell the truth, the attitude of a great proportion of the people would be greatly changed. If more sheets such as the Christian Science Monitor and a few others should stick to facts, this problem could be far more successfully attacked...
...lineup for tomorrow's game has presented a considerable problem and Coach Horween has been experimenting with his forward wall throughout this week. Some definite decision seems to have been reached, however, and the line which is slated to face the West Pointers is rugged and powerful. O'Connell and Ogden will fill the right and left end positions which they have been holding all week. The question of the guard and tackle posts, which has been something of a mystery of late, seems to have been answered by the assignment of W. Ticknor and Davis respectively to these...
...permanent still remains to be seen. By putting Ticknor back at guard, Coach Horween is nullifying the change he made ten days ago when he put the burly guard on Team B and tried him out at tackle. Ever since then the guard situation was more of a problem than the job of filling right tackle. Talbot performed creditably against the Wildcats and it was thought that he had practically clinched...