Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First discussion of the greatest problem to be faced by the Senior Class, the employment problem, was started this morning when all members of the graduating class received letters from James F. Dwinell '02, Director of the Placement Office, enclosing a pamphlet on occupational information...
Unclaimed during their afternoon hours the children spend a large part of their time on or around Soldiers Field and the Business School Field. They present a perennial problem to managers and caretakers, who, lacking the time to give moral instruction, must be continually routing the children by chasing them off the forbidden fields with oaths and other epithets. If not chased away, the urchins would steal the athletic equipment. The more they steal, the more they are chased, the more they are chased, the more they steal. Thus the situation presents a sort of vicious circle, from which nobody...
...more lasting import were the remarks of three other speakers which, like chapters of a book, unfolded as clearly as has yet been done the most important basic problem of distribution, international trade...
...Association of American Railroads decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general boost of freight rates and passenger fares as soon as the I.C.C. settles the pending petition for higher rates for certain commodities. Reason: this has become the only solution visible to railroad men for the problem of zooming operating costs. Along the U. S. railroad right-of-way, signal after signal continued turning ominously...
...evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding debt of 25 million francs from France by the simple device of threatening to dispatch warships; his ungloved fight to overthrow the Bank of the United States; his support of Protégé Sam Houston in the fight...