Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee has asked these men, "What shall we be allowed to read, what plays to see, what to believe, and where to hold meetings?" The problem will be discussed by Professor Chafee, Dr. Abraham Myerson, of Tufts Medical School, E. A. Weeks, Jr., of the Atlantic Monthly, and John S. Codman, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. Thomas J. McGrath, Mayor of Quincy, was to have spoken, but found today that he would be unable to be present...
...same problem has presented itself in a different form before in this country, and the same influence of Moscow was feared and condemned throughout, the land. During the war, when the I. W. W. first showed it's head in the northwestern states, it's members were promptly termed communists, menaces to organized society, and deserving of immediate exportation. It's tactics were denounced on every side. Yet those familiar with the labor conditions in the northwest, both before the war and of recent years, cannot deny that the situation, from the point of view of the worker, is much...
...problem of this maelstrom that was of chief concern to the members of the American Bankers' Association, meeting in San Francisco last week. Old, approved methods of banking have had to be revised under the new systems while equally important to bankers is the new personal element. Once a conservative banker could be expected to remain with his institution for years. Now bankers at the convention could scarcely remember whether friends were with the same bank, or whether that bank had been swept away into some merger or whether control of it had passed to some holding corporation...
...while this figure pleased the druggists it was annoying to the National Chain Store Association, to whom a major problem is escaping the charge that the failure of small community stores is a result of chain methods. As an answer to this accusation Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce told the Association that most retail store keepers are grossly inefficient and W. T. Grant, head of a chain of 100 stores, declared that chains create new business and that the retailer should profit by chain store competition instead of going bankrupt...
...International seismologists meet at Pasadena, Calif. Problem: more accurate measurements of speed of earthquakes...