Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other colleges experience the same problem, but remedy it by keeping their athletic plants open during hours when students are not pressed by other college duties. Yale, Tufts, and Columbia have gym facilities available for students on Sundays and holidays. New York University maintains evening use of its equipment for its students. We ask the H.A.A. why some such system cannot be adopted here...
Into sharp relief has the railroad problem of the United States been thrown by the decision of the President's fact-finding board. For, in ruling that the threatened wage-cut is unfair to employees, as well as futile toward a general solution of the problem, the report has silently but surely implied that the salvation of American railroads lies only in an evangelistic conversion: i.e., in complete reorganization. Only this could it have meant when it pointed out "the necessity that now rests upon the government for a complete and thorough-going reconsideration of the relationship of the railroad...
...abhors bloodshed. Another characteristic is his fighting sympathy for the underdog. He is frankly, definitely, enthusiastically prolabor, believes that relations between capital and labor constitute the nation's most difficult problem...
Aching hunger, rather than lack of munitions, has become Leftist Spain's gravest problem. Leftists can point with pride that their troops have held their own for the last three months. Now Leftists are handicapped by this summer's poor harvest, the cutting in two of Leftist territory, the feeding of 3,000,000 refugees who fled before Rightist advances, difficulties of transportation, ceaseless bombing, sinking of food ships bound for Leftist harbors...
...themselves less vulnerable to unfavorable publicity, by abstaining from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization along somewhat similar lines, for which Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker was proposed as unpaid head, to help cinemagnates guide and regulate their private lives...