Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last week the British Government persuaded itself that the worst of the Tientsin affair was over, that the Japanese, who had agreed to a conference at Tokyo, were willing to settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in her Chinese settlements and her privilege to help whom she pleases in the Sino-Japanese War. The British were heartened when the Japanese eased the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin; partial milk delivery was resumed, food became more plentiful, and the stripping of British subjects was discontinued...
...week's end General Homma's simple peasants were again stripping Britons who crossed the Settlement boundary as the blockade became tighter than ever. The Japanese, moreover, let it be known that they had no intention of settling the Tientsin problem as an isolated issue and announced that the Tokyo conference would be the occasion for demands for British "cooperation." If the British refuse to reverse their whole policy in China, "the necessary action" will be taken to make "a fundamental solution of the concession issue...
...Martin Niemoller, onetime U-boat commander, took him to Moabit prison. Pastor Niemoller was no Marxist, no pacifist, no libertarian. He had, indeed, been an early supporter of Naziism, and the .bourgeoisie and old army families who made up his congregation accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke up in sharp, open opposition. Eight...
Cancer is a wildfire growth of rebel cells. Why and how normal cells suddenly go haywire and pile up into malignant tumors is the crucial research problem in cancer today. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Milwaukee, Dr. Herbert Eugene Schmitz and James Ernest Davis of Chicago's Mercy Hospital prodded the dark cancer whirlpool with one more little ray of light...
This tractor is peculiarly Henry Ford's personal baby. It is his solution of his favorite problem: how to get people back to the farms. More extraordinary than the known facts about it were the claims that Henry Ford, usually far from boastful, made for it last week...