Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present many games are being won from the foul line instead of from the floor. A uniform type of official who will speed up the action is needed; and I believe that the meeting at the end of the month is an excellent step toward the solution of the problem...
Nevertheless, the President was unquestionably thinking about a most important unsolved issue?reparations?which Coolidge-chosen though unofficial experts were even then pondering in Paris (see p. 23). As a G. O. P. formula, the President has repeated that reparations is not a U. S. problem, but never has he denied his country's large interest in finding a solution...
Noting these facts, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, meeting last week in Miami, went to grips with a new labor problem by instructing President William Green to make a survey of the "deadline-at-40" practice among employers. President Green's first line of inquiry will be through the State legislatures...
...problem of the hijacker is one which at present effectually bunkers us, but we hope after some experience and quiet meditation to be able to cope even with this...
Able, thorough-going (when he took up golf six years ago, he broke 80 during his first season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from...