Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearance within the last decade, and especially this year, of a deluge of pictorial magazines, newspapers, and other publications presents a problem far too significant to be passed over. At first such literature was limited to two distinct groups: the tabloid sheet and the more refined but less exciting photographic magazine. Although the tabloids freely admitted that their aim was to give the public photographs of intimate and compromising situations, only those people who were notorious for such activities were bothered. Now, however, the outgrowth of this seems to be more far-reaching in its scope. Everybody who could possibly...
...content with the rebuff which the University administered last year in connection with the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg and the similar problem of a Harvard representative, the Reich, with Brontosaurian lightness of touch, attempted to worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from...
During the summer of 1936 army leaders from the 1st corps area and from Washington, leaders in the educational study of the corps, and laity and members of the Harvard School of Education all spoke at the conference where the problem of Americanization and civic training was one of the big questions raised. At that time it was decided that debates of and controversial questions are unwise methods of training for the camps...
...sooner had Mr. Wiggin molded the Doherty formula to his personal problem than Standard Gas & Electric Corp. reported an offer of $1,000,000 in settlement of suits against it which had never been filed, only threatened. Charging waste, misapplication and misappropriation of assets, a group of minority stockholders in Standard Gas were ready to ask $100,000,000 from the directors and various controlling interests, including H. M. Byllesby & Co. and U. S. Electric Power Corp. Reason advanced for quick settlement was that it would speed the reorganization of Standard Gas & Electric, now in famed Section...
...Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well be on the moon. By 1852 Congress...