Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally elected mayor of New York City on a Fusion ticket, was re-elected with the additional aid of the American Labor Party, and in philosophy is strictly New Deal Democrat. Last week the mayor of New York City was touring the Midwest talking about the Farm Problem. Since this has nothing to do with running New York City, he was questioned in Chicago about Presidential ambitions for 1940. Said the fast-witted little Mayor...
...whose union is still A. F. of L.), hovered in the background like an unbidden ghost, protecting his preserve from jurisdictional poaching by letting it be known that his Typographers might soon hold a referendum on joining C. I. O. But the most distraught man with the biggest problem on his hands was John L. Lewis' old friend and new enemy, William Green himself...
Governor Earle's subject has not been definitely announced, although Marvin stated that part of his speech would probably deal with the problem of relief. No political significance is attached to Earle's visit to Cambridge, as the Governor is coming only for the purpose of addressing the Yardlings and will depart immediately after he has delivered his speech...
...Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," bold title of a play full of bold surprises and shocks, proves that its innovating poet and author in also a master of drama. The play in dramatic because it centers about a great problem seeking its solution in the career of a heroic figure. The problem in that of assertion of self as against self-effacing participation in a greater cause; of acting as against suffering...
...publicly, it was known to those intimately familiar with Harvard football, that Harlow had developed a peculiar offensive play, and that it was practically unstoppable by any known defense when each man fulfilled his assignment perfectly. It will presumably he carried to Pennsylvania, and Harlow will have the problem of developing a defense...