Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents who objected to his private telephone from capitol to store, his installation of the first private lavatory in the Governor's office. Furthermore, his pet financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that its revival was a problem. Pacific Coast businessmen have long known that Julius Meier sank most of his personal fortune in the bank. Last week they learned from Meier & Frank's statement to SEC that the store itself had advanced no less than $800,000 to enable the bank to reopen. Julius Meier...
...Wave (1929) were much impressed, ranked it among the best Civil War novels vet written. Her books since then have been a continuous disappointment. Last week she annoyed, depressed and bored nearly everyone in sight with a 488-page novel "on the artist and the creative problem." Bread and a Sword was Evelyn Scott's third exhaustive mangling of the same unpopular theme; readers cheered her announcement that it was likely to be her last word on the subject...
...manifested in his other public statements. It was this which enabled him to cut through the sophistries of the Nazi demands on Harvard and; in the case of governor La Follette's request to him to pass on the Glenn Frank case, to expose the essence of the whole problem in a few sentences. Critics of Harvard contend that the two instructors were "dropped" because they had expressed political and economic views of which the authorities disapprove. Dr. Conant replied that in matters of promotions a man's political or economic views should not count either for or against...
...that time decision will be reached on the key problem of whether or not to collect money for the Red Cross in Spain...
...disapprove of the two-party system in America, but rather I favor its being conducted as in England where the merit system has a more independent and more solid footing. This situation can be changed only by recognizing it. The matter is not hopeless. The main problem is that the people be gotten out of a defeatist attitude...