Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal opportunity to collect, and morally the Government is no better than a malefactor who takes refuge behind a legal technicality-in this case the right not to be sued without its own consent. No pretty position is this for any government to be in. It posed a problem in New Deal morals...
...regard the motorization of Germany as the most important factor in our fight against un employment! . . . The German motor vehicle is not only the fastest but-we can say this pridefully-the best in the world. . . . Soon the Fatherland will be self-sufficient in motoring! I consider that the problem of synthetic fuel, like that of synthetic rubber, has been solved by German Science in principle. ... I point pridefully to our Party's record: four and a half times more new German cars licensed this January than in January 1933! Directly and indirectly 1,000,000 Germans are employed...
...unemployment. But Der führer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap car BECAUSE WE MUST! I rejoice that one of our leading constructors has devised a car which will cost no more than a medium-priced motorcycle. Its consumption of fuel, Meine Herren, will be the least imaginable...
...Theatre, where she had been functioning for eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line of reasoning explains what would otherwise be the somewhat startling revival of Somerset Maugham's sardonic play The Sacred Flame, which has appeared twice in the cinema since...
...Securities Commission, are appointed. No one has definite assurance that these boards will not be abolished in a succeeding administration. The present dependency of business on government would seem to indicate, however, that the importance of well-trained officials will become an increasingly vital problem...