Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenancy bill that provided for an appropriation of $50,000,000 annually for ten years to finance farmers seeking to purchase farms they now operate for absentee owners. Day before suffering their first major legislative setback in the present Congress, President Roosevelt, who had previously made the farm tenancy problem the subject of a special message, made a personal plea for retention of the section before members of the House Committee at a White House conference...
...colleagues squirmed and dodged. Michigan's plump, thin-haired Vanclenberg, Republican might-have-been of 1936 and maybe of 1940, put their agony in unequivocating words. Declared he: "One of the reasons why we in the Senate find ourselves in trouble at the moment in connection with this problem is the fact that Governmental agencies dealing with labor relationships have been so completely silent respecting the Sit-Down strike. They are very vocal indeed respecting the obligations of the employer, but as silent as the tomb respecting obligations to law and order and the maintenance of civilized society...
...Manhattan seven years ago a group of sportsmen and businessmen organized More Game Birds in America, Inc., early realized that, so far as ducks were concerned, conservation in the U. S. was only a fraction of their problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with...
...With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem- that of finding a speck of land 120 ft. long, 90 ft. wide, and only three feet high, which no plane had ever seen. This tiny spot is Kingman Reef, discovered some 80 years ago by Captain John Kingman of the U. S. schooner Shooting Star. Other ships occasionally spotted...
...rights of the great body of investors, which can be only described as financial royalism. Our pres ent situation is a carryover from a previous age when there were only a small number of security holders. It should not apply when we are today a nation of investors." The problem was, he said, to achieve "democratization in industrial management," to make management responsive to the will of the "real owners of the business." Commissioner Douglas' solution harmonized perfectly with the dominant theme in SEC thinking: segregation and subdivision of the functions of finance to minimize, real or potential conflicts...