Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employed more politeness and gone about things more reasonably, they might have succeeded. If they had immediately produced revolvers I would have instructed my wife to hand over her jewels, preferring not to take the risk of being shot. Moreover the jewels were insured. But they attacked the problem brusquely and the first thing I knew I had administered to them a push...
...problem came to meet him more than half way: the problem of personnel. Among his first callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon to be out of a job because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process...
...this was only half of Franklin Roosevelt's problem of jobs and men. Newshawks who harried Secretary Stephen Early on the subject of Cabinet changes got from him the answer that hardly any Cabinet members wanted to resign or would.* He was not speaking, however, of the bright young men who do the real work in many a department. Often has Franklin Roosevelt urged Business to hire more men. Little did he foresee that Business would hire not from Relief rolls but from the ablest young lawyers and executives on the Government's payrolls. For Business, which could...
General Foods, which has marketed Birdseye Frosted vegetables, fruit and meat in the U. S. since 1931, chose the Davieses' diplomatic migration to introduce them to Europe. Problem there is transportation, since ordinary refrigerator cars do not maintain the zero temperatures at which Birdseye foods must be kept. Arrangements have been made for a special car to transport Mrs. Davies' cream and other Birdseyetems. Meantime last week a Birdseye specialist, sent to Moscow for the purpose, was having the Embassy current stepped up high enough to power the 25 special Birdseye refrigerators...
...Current problem of the cinema industry in England is whether the U. S. talent that it is now importing will supply it with a trace of Hollywood dash. Second production of enterprising Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s London studio, with an American author (Zoe Akins), director (Thornton Freeland) and two Hollywood principals, Accused suggests that, on the contrary, England may infect Hollywood emigres with that dignified lethargy that has been the drawback of so many British pictures in the past. Well-acted by conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions...