Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton's President Dodds, whose best thought was to turn the whole problem over to an independent commission. Hence after three days of opposition testimony, the President's opponents found themselves still in the plight of Judiciary Committeeman Logan of Kentucky, who moaned...
...would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers...
...meet a pressing problem of finances, "The Harvard Monthly" recently held a special board meeting. Just when the meeting seemed domed to failure the phone rang. A Santa Claus was on the line in the person of one Mr. Galacar, who wanted to buy an interest in the magazine...
...meet the financial problem, the the committee recommended that awarding of gold and silver medals be stoppel, that the Coolidge Prize of $100 be reduced to $75, with second and third prizes of $25 and $15, and that an appropriation should be secured to cover expenses such as travelling and entertainment of visiting debaters...
...problem of the Council is partly financial and partly faulty organization," read the report. The committee compared debating here with that of other eastern colleges, notably Yale and Princeton, and found that Harvard is the only college which does not appropriate money for debating. The report pointed out that the Oberlin College team was complaining because its appropriation had been cut from $1200 to $600, while the Debating Council receives only $340 from the Coolidge Fund...