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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Hare Dewey, topping all G. O. P. popularity polls, perfectly groomed and well advised, was on his way to Minneapolis to make.a speech on the farm problem before 12,000 people-and a national radio audience. Of the farm problem he made no mention, but his speech was a bull's-eye. Failure to give the people jobs, economic despair, defeatism-with these Mr. Dewey debited the New Deal, averred that business abuses can be cured without creating Government abuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Hare & Tortoise | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...temporary expedient could solve Ohio's problem. Only solution in sight is through the passage of enabling legislation by the rural-dominated General Assembly, which would allow Ohio's cities, now legally hog-tied, to raise sufficient taxes for relief. But the chance of Governor Bricker calling a special session this year, thus opening the floodgates to old-age pension bills, and possibly having the State treasury's handsome 1939 surplus swept away, was remote. This was what still kept the gossips gossiping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Heartless | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often from the time of Hippocrates), the experiments or clinical notes baldly recorded, briefly "discussed." Finally the whole structure is crowned with conclusions-if there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Price Increase is Problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticklish Problems in Lowering Rates Face New Council Committee on Board | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...Senior Fellows are the managing body of the Society, which is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRANE BRINTON '19 TO BE NEW SENIOR FELLOW | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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