Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress convened in Extraordinary Session last fortnight, extraordinary tasks confronted it: the President's four-point legislative program, to which Recession had added the pressing problem of tax revision. When Congress completed its second week of the Special Session, its task was still just as formidable as it had been. In its second week in Washington, the Senate managed to stop filibustering about antilynching, but debate had not become notably intelligent. In the House, the most noteworthy result of, the second week was an opportunity long sought for one of that body's most obscure members...
...been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge swag chiefly to local junk yards by means of forged bills of sale. Most puzzling problem he left in his wake was a big overhead electric crane, which he had sold to a firm of contractors for $250 and which they had paid $350 to move from the Diener plant, where there was no building in which to reinstall it last week...
...side to get outlets for the energy and ability of her people. This outward push was checked for a while by the Great War, but Hitler has picked up the old torch and put the question squarely to the statesmen of Europe, can Germany expand without another war? This problem overshadows every other one, and with China and Spain for the minute shelved, to this problem European diplomacy will devote itself during the winter...
...first time in its modern history the University has come face to face with the disturbing problem of organized labor. Although union men have been employed here for many years, Harvard has never inquired, when hiring men, if they belonged to a union. In the case of the cooks in the dining halls and the carpenters, electricians, and plumbers of the Maintenance Department, the union has dealt with the men individually, never with Harvard. Thus, union activities have at no moment before conflicted with, nor come to the official attention of, the University...
...Impractical demands for higher and higher wages by the closed shop, or objections to the employment of non-union workers in other parts of the University, may foster disputes between the two organizations. As a leader in liberal thought, Harvard should practice enlightened leadership in dealing with its labor problem, but at the same time it should reserve the right to exercise independent action...