Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hinterlands to study conditions first hand, then report a bill for enactment next session. Therefore, when he learned that Messrs. Bilbo and Black had 40 names on their petition Cotton Ed stormed into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced his acreage but he cannot control the seasons. . . . There is a law which empowers the Commodity Credit Corporation to meet the emergency...
...gives the National Institute of Health, which Dr. Thompson heads, $750,000 to build a laboratory in which the many-sided cancer problem may be studied, and $700,000 for a year's expenses. Gloated Dr. Thompson: "This is the equivalent of the income from...
...Orthodox-Government row. The Orthodox Church disapproved of the Government's recently coming to terms with the Vatican; seemed to suspect moreover that the Government had had a hand in the death of the Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava (TIME, Aug. 2). The Premier's problem was urgent because under Yugoslavia's Constitution, Ministers and Deputies must belong to one or other of the country's five religious communities...
...present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf who are also mutes never expect or hope to hear a sound. Their problem is not acoustics but ameliorating the disadvantages of deafness, most serious of which is difficulty in getting jobs...
...keeping the feeble Browns out of last place in the American League. By last week, the Browns had drawn over 100,000 spectators to their home games, more than watched them all last year. Like many professional baseballers who, because they work half days and half years, find the problem of diversion difficult and pressing, Hornsby was fond of betting on horse races. Last week, sportswriters who knew that a special clause in Hornsby's $20,000-a-year contract bound him not to let his betting interfere with his baseball, soon guessed that a difference of opinion about...