Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general problem is shaded throughout by an acute financial situation. Although the budget has been balanced throughout the depression, yet every department has been forced to advance cautiously. In each one of these there are a limited number of highly paid positions in the way of professorships and other chairs. Men holding these positions are given life appointments for the most part, and changes of personnel do not occur frequently...
...seems a pity that a break in athletic relations, no matter how minor, should occur between these two institutions now. Princeton can well testify to the unsatisfactory and inconclusive nature of this method of solution. On the other hand, abuse and impatience over a fait accompli brings the problem no nearer to a satisfactory conclusion...
Under the gallery stares of frowsy jobless, who for eight days had camped on the floor holding mock sessions (TIME, May 4), New Jersey's reassembled Assembly last week shunted the relief problem back to helpless municipalities. It passed a bill, approved the same evening by the State Senate, which sets up a commission composed of Governor Harold G. Hoffman and four Republican officials to disburse State relief money if & when available, failed to provide a tax system to raise it, adjourned...
Outside the farm problem, he has few interests except the Republican Party and his own ancestry, which he traces back through 300 years of pioneer U. S. farmers. So regular a Republican is the Iowa Senator that, whereas most agricultural leaders blame much of the farmer's woe on tariff walls, he declares himself "just like William McKinley" on that issue...
...maliciously insane little girl, and an unsuccessful libel suit are the ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help...