Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temerity to undertake in the closing months of a strenuous term of the President of the world's greatest nation. I'd like the low down on this. Ray Long in his leading editorial "A Fine Human Document" quotes Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: "Whenever a problem comes before me the first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else can do it better. That saves me for the problems which only...
...this re-attainment of perspective, a movement looking toward the sane use of a good thing, the faculty of the Harvard Law School should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied...
...Sinton on Friday, May 24, according to a program arranged by the Executive Committee. Among other subjects, there will be an open forum on the House Plan, following speeches on the question by President Lowell, Professors Coolidge and Greenough, and possibly one of the architects for the Plan. The problem of increased accommodations for the Yale-Harvard football games, which has been discussed this winter in alumni circles, will also be approached...
This is no place to go into the merits and demerits of the ideas placed in the mouths of the various characters. Suffice it to say they are well thought out, at times illuminating and for the first two acts gaily and wittily put forth. This problem of youthful ideals, post-marital disappointment and the attendant question of infidelity makes interesting plays and when handled as the present author treats it makes a good evening's diversion...
...silk makers fear to risk anti-trust proceedings by agreements to restrict production, and cannot agree among themselves on tariff protection, the overproduction problem seems far from a solution. Hosiery manufacturers (who consume about 50% of silk used in the U. S.) have accumulated enough silk to last for some months, and are not greatly in the market at present prices...