Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action which would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. . . . She is willing, if such action would solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith from the situation." In the London circle of Mrs. Lucy Baldwin this statement is called "impudent and melodramatic...
...Beaux-Arts built a five-story structure in Manhattan to house its own drawing classes. But architects and colleges were beginning to complain that its slant was too traditional, theoretical, unpractical. Year after year the problem sent contestants for the Beaux-Arts Scholarship to Paris was an opera house, although no notable opera house had meanwhile gone up in the land except the one Utilitarian Samuel Insull built in Chicago in 1929. As Beaux-Arts prestige threatened to crack, University of California resigned its membership and University of Virginia followed...
...difference can be justified by actual savings on volume business. Everyone agrees that it is cheaper to handle a few large orders than many small ones but in a mixed business it is almost impossible to determine precisely what the saving is. To circumvent this legal and accounting problem U. S. Rubber Co. last week announced a novel method of meeting the Robinson-Patman Act. After the turn of the year a new subsidiary called U. S. Tire Dealers Mutual Co. will purchase tires from the parent company on an equal footing with big buyers like motor-makers and mail...
...Lederer became imbued with the peace idea, when as a youth of sixteen in Czechoslovakia, he saw the horrors of the late World War. He immediately tried to reason the whole problem out, and arrived at the conclusion that the people don't want war, that in times of crises they are easily led, merely tools in the hands of politicians and munitions makers. Today, the nations of the world are spending 81 per cent of their incomes for armament, and according to him, the people deriving benefits are not the nations themselves, but greedy individuals growing sleek...
King Edward's abdication, although not unexpected, comes as a blow to a sympathetic world, which had hoped that some other solution to the problem could have been found. The days when the divine right of kings was an unquestioned maxim have passed, but it is unfortunate that the stage has been reached when a monarch's private life is subject to regulation by a Cabinet of Ministers...