Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted trade unionism would become entrenched throughout U. S. industry as the result of NRA, prophesied a split in Labor's ranks on the industrial organization issue. Now returned from six months' study of the labor situation in Europe, he warns that "the greatest problem of the 20th Century is keeping social conflict from becoming too intense...
When easy-going bushy-whiskered Lumberman George Henry Leatherbee left an $84,000 trust fund to Harvard on his death in 1911 for free lectures on finance, open to the public, it was not in anticipation of any need for education of businessmen on the labor union problem. Upon accretion of the fund to where it yielded the stipulated $3,000 income in 1920, the first lecture series was given on "Real Estate Fundamentals." It drew six students. By 1934, 376 capitalists flocked to hear Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, fresh from the U. S. Treasury, lecture on inflation possibilities...
...customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous as "big iron" racing, the chief problem of the doodlebug driver is keeping his jealously guarded fuel mixture a secret...
...What problems occupy their mind? What trends, tendencies, and current flow there and what directions they take? The Guardian can play the role of such a "barometer" of the youth mentality and as such it can become even more important than it is now. This objective can again be realized, to a considerable extent, through devoting each issue to one important problem...
...Referred the problem of the "Ramblers" to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for final decision. ("Ramblers" are dropped Freshmen and upperclassmen who neither reside in the Houses nor belong to the non-resident center in Dudley Hall.) The Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports voted to refuse the request of the "Ramblers" to compete for House trophies or to be eligible for House championships although they will be allowed to play against House teams...