Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi, addressing the America-Japan Society in Tokyo last week, capped the "new situation" by purring: "It is incredible that any problem between our two countries, however difficult it may be, shall be incapable of a solution through diplomatic negotiations. . . . Japan and America are destined to come closer and closer together and work in concert toward the attainment of peace and prosperity not only in the Pacific but throughout the world...
...last week for a Southern Conference for Human Welfare, were scores of Negroes, mostly educated. As this was a "progressive conference expressing the progressive spirit of the South," in response to the findings of President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council on "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced the city's Jim Crow...
...would be a grave misunderstanding of the problem to think that the only question is how to find a refuge for a tormented minority, or that even this problem can be solved by removing a half million Jews from the Reich. If any one doubts that this is not the problem let him look to Poland, where the Poles are beginning to ask whether the great powers are going to assist Hitler by caring for his victims while they fail to provide an outlet for the surplus population of a nation that does not resort to such violence...
...problem is utterly insoluble, except in a small number of individual cases, if it is looked upon as requiring no more than the finding of a haven of refuge for the immediate victims of the most calculated cruelty...
...deep slime, hoping to rescue imbedded relatives. With hundreds of acres of land destroyed, thousands made homeless, St. Lucia next day counted its casualties: at least 250 dead, many more missing. The British Windward Islands administration, with headquarters at St. George's Grenada, faced its greatest relief problem...