Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole economic problem is admittedly a challenge to the intelligence of a democratic, capitalistic society. The educational aspects of the problem cannot be neglected," he observed...
Dean Holmes urged cooperative study of this problem by the Faculty of Education, and other faculties at Harvard. "It is even possible that the attempt to assist in determining what can and should be taught in schools concerning schools can and should advise and guide economic and occupational life and how schools can and should advise and guide their pupils into occupations might be enlightening to those who are dealing directly with the economic and political problems of the world," he believed...
...death outside a Republic Steel plant one Sunday last May, the city's officials were left holding an exceedingly hot potato. Arrested during the massacre were 63 men & women, many of them badly wounded. They were originally held on charges of conspiracy. The State finally solved its problem by reducing the charges to unlawful assembly. Last week 57 defendants, some still battered, pleaded guilty. Six others, accused of being leaders, were fined $10 each, the rest...
Before 1929 some steps had been taken to solve Manhattan's intolerable traffic problem, immensely snarled by half-a-million daily commuters and the influx from twelve highways, led by great U. S. national No. 1. But not until the Depression loosed the public purse strings for work-making public works was there real accomplishment. Open for business 24 hours a day last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic...
...Society for Curriculum Study, whose 900 members include some of the nation's top-rank educators. It is partly supported by the Lincoln School of Columbia's Teachers College, until this year had a staff of WPA researchers. Claiming to be impartial, scientific, it presents the problems of modern civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues a year, each dealing with...