Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week long President Roosevelt was face to face with the embarrassing problem of what to do about the late AAA (see p. 18). Once during the week he came face to face with a far more embarrassing situation: six Justices of the Supreme Court in person. Standing with Mrs. Roosevelt before a wall of potted palms in the Red Room, the President held out his hand and a gleam of special pleasure came into his eye as Mr. Chief Justice Hughes and his Lady appeared at the official White House reception for the Judiciary. The same gleam of personal pleasure...
...Bedeviled by the problem of how the votes of the West were to be won in 1936 without the aid of AAA, President Roosevelt drove out to see the annual military pageant at Fort Myer, Va. This year's subject: "The Winning of the West...
Concerning the question of unemployment insurance, the Speaker declared that he did not approve of a Federal law to take care of the problem, but believed that the Massachusetts law should be given a fair trial. "It may be amended and improved," he said, "but in no event should it be repealed without a thorough test...
Neither are we as pessimistic as Mr. Munroe concerning those students who, "however earnestly they apply themselves, can only benefit to a very limited degree from tutorial work." Here is a fundamental difference in emphasis. Mr. Munroe thinks one of the fundamental problems is the number of those who are incapable of tutorial work; we believe that by far the most fundamental problem is the number of those who could profit from the tutorial system, and don't. These men, we feel sure, could be stimulated into activity under the system we propose. All they need is a constant reminder...
Reviewing of elementary courses, in the manner specified by the Union Committee, is an interesting experiment in solving the problem. Its aim is to provide a worthwhile substitute for a tutoring school. Not only is a fat wallet less liable to buy an education and a diploma under these circumstances, but also the lean one may get, free, much of what a tutorial school can give...