Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane Co. got out his fiddle, made it a party. In many cases the Sit-Down was a craze like marathon dancing or miniature golf. But it was also a grim and growing Problem, which Congress last week found itself unable longer to ignore...
...warning that rising prices must be checked by higher taxes and budget balancing. Although the forces of inflation had been unostentatiously at work for four years, not since 1933 had the U. S. public enjoyed such a good inflation scare. New Deal Congressmen who were already worried over the problem of passing the President's Supreme Court bill, shuddered at the suggestion that they should add to their troubles by having to up taxes...
...ripple ran round the London court last week as the intervener's name was at last revealed to be Francis Stephenson. On Dec. 9, King Edward, then wrestling with the problem whether or not to abdicate, was told that an intervention had been entered which might leave...
...closing, the House Committee expresses the desire to meet anyone who wishes further information about Lowell. For convenience, members of the Committee will be in Lowell R-11 to talk the problem over with any Freshman during the same hours as the conferences with the tutors...
...over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their allusions to these matters betray an awkwardness and an uneasiness and nothing more...