Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national. The subject is important because of its relation to Harvard's present development, and decidedly opportune, for the work of the Federation is to help make Harvard national. What President Eliot has to say this evening will probably constitute a masterful statement of Harvard's prime problem...
Thus far the civil war in Spain has been no major problem to the Red Cross, for the reason that both Leftists & Rightists have so many well-organized, passionate, money-collecting friends. U. S. citizens have donated just $1,054 to their Red Cross specifically for Spain. The International Red Cross has received $57,000 from the American Red Cross for Spanish succor, dispassionately divided between Rightists & Leftists. The American Red Cross spent $41,000 repatriating U. S. citizens caught in Spain by the war and unable to escape by their own efforts. Some of the very ablest mercy work...
Sympathetic indeed was Franklin Roosevelt to the railroads last week, and hardly a day went by without his active attention to the problem. As the roads gloomily revealed that car-loadings last week were lower than for the same week in 1932 when Depression was at its blackest, the President called a Cabinet meeting where he was reported to have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided...
This week, as he promised, Franklin Roosevelt finally sent his recommendations to Congress. Possibly piqued by Congressional balking of his Reorganization Bill (see p. 16), possibly too baffled by the railroad problem to have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government...
Said he: "Until it has been possible for the Congress to make any and all studies for permanent solution of the railroad problem, some immediate legislation is, I believe, necessary at this session, in order to prevent serious financial and operating difficulties between now and the convening of the next Congress...