Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that no matter what the opposition does, it cannot win. If the opposition can be thus persuaded to lie down and die, so much the better for the Democratic, party. But while the leading candidates are bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy and to set the Republicans on their feet for a successful campaign...
...your March 23 issue, there appeared an article headed ''Program for Picker" which will undoubtedly create the impression among your readers that the cotton-producing South faces a chaotic labor problem due to the inventive genius of the Rust Brothers of Memphis, Term., who have invented a mechanical cotton picker...
When Franklin Roosevelt started to plan his customary spring vacation, first necessity was to find a seaworthy substitute for Vincent Astor's Nourmahal, the "million dollar yacht" which sounded too plutocratic in the ears of ordinary voters in an election year. That problem was solved by the Coast Guard which converted for the President's use a cutter rechristened the Potomac. Second necessity was to find substitutes for Mr. Astor and the socialite group of Long Islanders and Wall Streeters who in other years had been the Presidential fishing companions...
...when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive Publisher Hearst to support a rival candidate. Statesmanlike "Alf" Landon last week solved the problem by doing precisely nothing...
...President's vital figure was documented with a picture of the relief problem as it looks to New Deal eyes...