Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three members of his "brain trust"-Charles P. Taft, Ralph Robey and Earl Taylor-arrived from Topeka, to help polish up his July 23 acceptance speech. Senator Carey announced that, though they had not discussed any other solution to the farm problem, he and Nominee Landon had agreed that a permanent system of Federal bounties was to be deplored...
...nurses to staff their wards," observed Secretary Claribel Wheeler of the N. L, of N. E. ". . . On the other hand, small hospitals in scattered regions require such long hours for such low salary, that competent women are reluctant to take up staff positions there. Unless we can solve this problem, the small hospitals threaten to hire practical nurses...
...Labor was the Annalist, which suggested: "It is easily possible to overemphasize the importance of strikes in the general business outlook. There have been numerous instances where strikes . . . have actually improved the statistical position of. an entire industry by curtailing production. . . . But there is much to indicate that the problem of labor relations constitutes one of the danger spots in the business outlook for the next few months...
...just placed his resignation as president in the hands of another Scotsman, Chairman James McKinsey. To President McKinlay, who rose from a cashboy, Marshall Field was an Institution. To Chairman McKinsey, who entered from the top as a professional management counsel, Marshall Field was a corporation with a problem. The two viewpoints were incompatible. As Mr. McKinlay's successor, Mr. McKinsey suggested Vice President Frederick Dexter Corley, a tall, blue-eyed, dark-haired merchant of 53 who got his start in the millinery department at 18. The suggestion was accepted by the Marshall Field directorate within five minutes...
...shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan to have grand canals built on both sides of the Continental Divide to save the Old West and solve the unemployment problem...