Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoyt divides his time between a Hudson River estate and a Georgia pecan plantation, likes books, privacy and decorum. Last week when a tactless newshawk reminded him of his prize-winning predictions for Publisher Hearst, the new Alcohol Administrator declared with some feeling: "Whatever I wrote about the liquor problem in 1929 is water under the bridge, and I don't want to talk about...
...appointing one more commission to study the "youth problem" last fortnight, Dr. George Frederick Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll...
...Hall. Otherwise they would have been forced to pay the regular high prices for individual meals at the Union. The action was small, but good, and forms the last link in the chain which now encompasses, circles, solves, even finishes, for ever and ever, that historical phenomenon,--the Commuters' Problem...
...course, now that the compulsion and monotony have been removed, and, what should prove at least revolutionary, a number of upperclassmen will attend particular lectures upon subjects which interest them. Dr. Bock must once again be congratulated upon the sensible way in which he has tackled a problem of Harvard hygiene and upon his sympathetic and liberal attitude toward the student body...
...Theatre Players announce that they stand for "significant plays dealing with the problem of that basic section of the population--the workers." Their play "Stevedore," running highly worth seeing, and too few see it. With their limited resources the New Theatre Players do an excellent job. The casting is perfect. The play suffers, like most avowedly propagandist plays, from too much earnestness on the part of the playwrights (Paul Peters and George Sklar). It lacks any touch of relief from exciting, sometimes harrowing situations. The structural fault in its conception is obviously this tie scene after another. The acting...