Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief executive, Calvin Coolidge found it necessary last week to use unminced language on one important problem. It had been reported that 22 of the "career" diplomats whom President Coolidge raised to the rank of Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that...
...year, some difference of opinion concerning the merits of certain issues aboard the good ship on which the Army and Navy serve. That is "shipmate stuff" and can hardly be discusses here. It has no bearing on the larger issue. In fact, to a certain extent it simplifies the problem of partisanship, for under the present circumstances, as in later life, the Navy man may give his unqualified support to his Army brother whenever he sallies forth upon the field of glory...
This team of 1898 was confronted with the problem of avenging a series of defeats at the hands of Pennsylvania elevens, defeats largely the result of the irresistible Red and Blue "Guards Back" offensive. W. H. Lewis '95, considering Napoeon's strategy at the battle of Austerlitz applicable to defensive tactics on the football field, communicated with Head Coach Forbes his plan for stopping the line-crashing Penn guard. The attacks of the Austrian army and the Quaker eleven were analogous, both directing a powerful blow at the center of the opposing line. To substitute ends and tackles...
...Some uses "without political effect" to which Anti-Saloon moneys are put: publishing "a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, books and articles on the scientific, economic, sociological, hygienic and other phases of the alcohol problem"; publishing the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem; issuing press releases; "furnishing the religious press (which reaches the great bulk of our supporters) with articles intended to answer wet propaganda"; publishing The American Issue (national monthly...
...Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended the Hoover reputation from the low-wheat-price-fixing charge and the Oil Scandals...