Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reciting his long affection for Georgia and his calling of a conference of Southerners to study the South as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem'' (TIME, July 18), Franklin Roosevelt said: "If the people of the State of Georgia want definite action . . . they must send to . . . Congress Senators and Representatives who are willing to stand up and fight night and day for Federal statutes drawn to meet actual needs...
...head of Lincoln's mortgage department. A onetime flying teacher, inventor of a revolving neon sign, 33-year-old Bill Hall is not a stodgy real-estate man. Last week he was promoting a unique private-&-public housing project hopefully aimed at solving Fort Wayne's problem by pleasing rich and poor alike...
...That Boy." Most of these changes enormously complicate the army's No. 1 problem in wartime: how to insure adequate supplies for easily assembled and quickly trained fighting forces. That task belongs not to General Craig but to a balding, agile gentleman whom older army officers call "that boy" in tones varying from awe to horror. Louis Arthur Johnson...
...Original Roosevelt Man in 1932, partly because the Legion had by then taken unofficial title to the job of Assistant Secretaryship. If the White House did not rate Mr. Woodring a first-class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936 did Harry Woodring become a problem. Franklin Roosevelt met that problem the easy...
Blue marlin have often been sighted off Montauk; two years ago an 892-pounder was harpooned. Getting them to take a bait is the problem in northern waters...