Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might agree to extend their current nonaggression contract. Though doubts, reasonable in view of Franklin Roosevelt's longtime enmity to Private Power, were expressed as to how Iong past election day his conciliatory sentiments might last, at least a start had been made toward solution of a momentous problem...
...after making plows for 23 years for Deere & Co., George Nelson Peek became president of Moline Plow Co. at $100,000 a year, made General Hugh Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned...
First arbiter in this dispute involving 40,000 square miles of territory was Spain's King Alfonso XIII in 1910. He soon admitted that the problem was too difficult for him, suggested "direct negotiations" between the two Republics. After much wrangling they agreed to confer in 1924, pledged themselves to submit to the U. S. President issues on which they could not agree. Now 12 years after this agreement, they have got as far as the White House...
...sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into a taxi and presented them informally to the city. Police for some reason found...
Pointing to the imminent doom of amateurism in athletics the country over, Mr. Bingham has put his finger on a problem that strikes the roots of Harvard's athletic tradition. Dedicated to the strictest amateur ideal, Harvard is threatened on all sides by the amazing growth of professionalism which has developed during the past decades. If box-office interests continue to rule the sport, the college will soon face a situation where no teams of similar standards can be found for the schedule...