Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been laggard in Rearmament, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House with what he called "appalling frankness" that "democracies are always about two years behind dictatorships." In these circumstances, argued the Prime Minister, the democratic British Cabinet are doing the best they can and "every phase of the defense problem is being studied by the best brains of the country, including 29 Ministers of the Crown, 179 officers of the Fighting Services, 283 civil servants, eleven representatives of the Dominions and 30 persons outside the Government services...
...neighboring States of Cochin and Mysore were expected to follow the lead of Travancore, but this lead went only a short way toward solving the problem of Untouchability. Travancore is a South Indian State of 5,000,000 total population, of whom 1,765,000 are Untouchables and, although they may now worship in the State's temples, they will continue to be scorned and ostracized by most caste Hindus, even in Travancore. They will continue to earn meagre livelihoods by performing the "degrading tasks" no caste Hindu will touch, such as cleaning latrines, barbering, cobbling, laundering and Cremating...
...moved out of a $125-a-month apartment in mid-Manhattan, taken to living in their two-room trailer jacked up in a Broadway parking lot for $25 a month. First such case to make news in dense New York City, this was only an inkling of a problem that is vexing local authorities and real-estate owners all over...
While the deflationary effects of sudden liquidation of the $7,000,000,000 worth of U. S. investments now owned abroad would be terrific, the inflationary effects of incoming capital is the Government's immediate problem. The money not only goes into the stockmarket in the form of cash but also goes as gold into the credit base, where it has ten times as much effect, a dollar of gold supporting at least $10 worth of credit. U. S. gold stocks are already at the incredible figure of $11,100,000,000, over one-half the world...
...hasten to write on this delicate subject because I've been told there's some change in University Hall's policy regarding the entertainment of lady guests in students' rooms. The handling of the problem here--though not quite analogous--may be of some use. In general the regulations are stricter. Men may not ride alone with a girl in a car. In fact owners of cars can't take them out before noon and must have them in before eleven. But surprising as it may seem, gentlemen may entertain girls in their rooms from one in the afternoon until...