Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having set his own high court at the Capitol in spick-and-span order, he was ready to make suggestions to the President for judicial improvements else where...
Stirring the patronage kettle, - Mr. Hoover was beset by many a troublous problem. Some he met, others he deferred...
Secretary Lamont has on his hands one problem that will certainly require the interposition of the President's power to straighten it out. This problem is the relationship in foreign fields of the State Department's diplomatic and consular representatives and the Commerce Department's commercial attaches. As Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover greatly multiplied these commercial attaches and raised them to a new plane of importance. He picked shrewd men who knew U. S. business and sent them forth to scout the world for new markets. Inevitably they have clashed with the regular foreign service...
...difficult to see the exact point at which a public hearing could be properly injected. ... I respectfully urge that the provision for a public hearing on these matters be eliminated [from the bill]. . . . Whether the final decision of the Department should be a public document presents a somewhat different problem, though it would seem such action is open to most of the objections above enumerated...
...will in all probability play first and third base respectively, the position they occupied on last year's nine. At shortstop E. H. McGrath '31, captain of last season's Freshman team seems to have the call. The choice of a second baseman is Coach Mitchell's main problem. F. E. Nugent '30 has a slight edge over A. G. Whitney '29 in the race for this post...