Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting for President, for the Governors of all six provinces and for all the Senate candidates. Since the Coalition parties had split up when it came to nominating candidates for the House of Representatives, Menocal's men seemed to have pocketed the House. Prime election after-problem : to what extent had Batista's Army, which searched voters for weapons, stuffed the ballot boxes? An oblique answer by Cuba's Secretary of the Interior Maximiliano Smith: "The elections have been the most honest ever held in Cuba. The Army and the police were not only impartial, but also...
...vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
Robert J. H. Kiphuth has been worried by the problem of being able to see, from his place on the pool's brink, only the upper half of what Yale swimmers were doing in the water. To the problem of how the other half swims, Coach Kiphuth last week discov ered a solution. Photographers were on hand when he proudly emerged from the Yale pool after sitting on the bottom, coaching in a diving suit...
Christmas office parties seem to be something of a problem to working girls. "If a girl is not in the habit of drinking, this is a poor time to learn," Mrs. MacGibbon advises. Other advice: When encountering the boss in a night club wait for him to make social advances. Always rise when introduced to the boss's wife at the office. "But perhaps the worst feminine fault," says Mrs. MacGibbon, "is talking too much...
...East" is Thursday's problem. Kendric N. Marshall '21 instructor in Government will speak on "United States in the Orient" in the morning session, which Dean Hindmarsh will discuss "Japan's Foreign Policy" later...