Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Eugene Meyer of the Federal Farm Loan Board stopped in on his annual western tour. Again the Farm Problem received highest official contemplation...
...unexpectedly he said: "I am not insensible to the value of the study which sincere farm leaders have given to this question of farm legislation. They have all contributed to the realization that the problem must be solved. They will be invited into conference. Outstanding farmers such as Governor Lowden will be asked to join in the search for common ground upon which...
...discussed high railroad freight rates as a factor in the Farm Problem: "It is as if a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole section of our country. ... Some calculations which I made a few years ago showed that the increases in railway rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles further from seaboard...
...play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell starts going home...
...reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both he and his wife are killed in an absurd climax...