Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without forcing it might be said that the same pre-occupation with contrast invades even the non-fictional prose or this issue. The book reviews are filled with the problems of perversion and suffering, literary experiment and revolution, frustration and release. But the most comprehensive discontent is expressed in a lengthy article by Arthur Rosenbloom, "Hara-kiri in the Ivory Tower". Mr. Rosenbloom uses the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences as his springboard, and from it launches into a vehement stream of reflections on the plight of the modern academic intellectual. Exposing with more vigor than originality...
...much chance of regulating by law the hours of labor in textiles. But there is no limit yet found to an Administration's power to make treaties. If a treaty can be ratified limiting the hours of textile labor to 40 hours it will help to solve the problem of Japanese competition. It will become the law of the land and thus open new possibilities for Federal regulation by treaty of labor conditions in many another U. S. industry...
...government ever gave so much time and thought to a single problem as Britain gave to India during the three Round-table Conferences, the sittings of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament and the interminable debates in the House of Commons that preceded passage of the India Bill in its final form. The controversy shook the Conservative Party to its foundations; Stanley Baldwin staked his political future upon pushing the new Constitution through...
...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, Olympic champagne swimmer and glamour girl of sport, interviewed in her suite at the Ritz-Carlton. "Football players support the college and should be paid for their work," she declared. She saw only "the name amateurism" as a stumbling block to her solution of the problem of professionalism in college football...
...Junior Fellows study for three years at the expense of the University and have free use of all its facilities. Receiving no credit for courses and ineligible for any degree, they devote their whole time to productive scholarship and independent research. The Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...