Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the Council has voted the subject down for the moment, the slight, if highly commendable, action it did take to cooperate with the Houses indicates that the problem is a very real one and therefore will, as the Houses become increasingly important, crop up again. When it does the Council should not simply meet it by such stop-gap measures as it took last night but must take the bull by the horns and make real provision through constitutional means...
...unique feature on this year's program will be the dramatization of a ses- sion of the International Labor Conference on Saturday morning. For the sake of expediency the participating countries have been limited to those representing certain definite types of labor conditions. The particular problem of the Conference will be child labor legislation...
Plans to solve the pressing problem that many brilliant students are severely handicapped in the medical field, where schooling is so difficult and expensive as to exclude outside work, are occupying the attention of the Medical School, Dean C. Sidney Burwell revealed today in his annual report...
...written for the Times last August by President Claudius Temple Murchison of the Cotton-Textile Institute. Last week President Murchison arrived in New York from San Francisco, marched modestly into the Hotel McAlpin to tell a gathering of U. S. textile men how an excellent formulation of their problem had led to a solution both surprising and superb. In Osaka on Jan. 24 Dr. Murchison and a deputation of U. S. manufacturers signed a two-year quota agreement with Japanese spinners, ending the Japanese menace just as it began to rumble...
Last spring it was evident that a reciprocal treaty with Japan would take a long time to arrange, yet it might not be long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan...