Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Administrator Ridder was forced to a showdown on a problem over which he and all other relief officials have sweated ever since relief began. Potent is the argument of employers, as stated...
...Congress wrestled long with the cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
...catcher. Thirty-six thousand clubs, leagues and associations whose chief objective is wild life conservation. . . . And yet, with all this potential voting strength, the wild life conservationists altogether exert less political influence on our governments, both State and national, than the Barrel-Rollers' Union in Pumpkin Center. . . . The problem resolves itself therefore into one of federation of the group interests to bring to bear their voting strength upon the men who are willing to serve when the demand is made impressive by numbers...
...problem of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has been exaggerated beyond all reason. There would be no problem at all if international trade were stabilized, so that Italy could obtain raw materials at a decent price, and exchange for them her finished goods, so that Germany and Japan could do the same. Mr. Lansbury's motion in the House of Commons last week would have been more realistic had he emphasized the importance, not of a transfer of colonies, but of a stabilization of international trade. It is incompatible with the principle of sovereignity, and self-determination, that peoples, whether...
...problem of the 'have' and 'have-not' countries...." you say glibly, "is fundamental." Fundamental to what, if you please? To war, to peace, to understanding, or to confusion?-I suspect the latter...