Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at arbiter, no momentous Peruvian problem awaits solution by a stalwart U. S. patriot. True, there is talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain...
...regime of authority with a strong Government possessing ample powers but founded on the masses and keeping close to the masses. . . . All who have Fascismo at heart wish to create a regime whose ruling class can always draw from the people the men necessary to its constant renewal. . . . The problem of government cannot be solved by trusting in the illusory dogma of popular sovereignty, but it can be solved by the wise choice of a few leading statesmen...
Eldo Lewis Hendricks of Warrensburg, Mo.: "There is no greater problem in the field of education than the one-room rural school, and we have more than 150,000 of them. . . . Education fails to function in rural districts as certainly as democracy fails to function in a national election. . . . A teacher in the rural school gets $750 a year and a city teacher...
...problem of sales and of scrutinizing potential markets, according to Harry D. Neach, vice president of the Sales Engineering Service Corp., most baffles the manufacturer. Last week he anecdoted about analyses triumphant...
...Jones told the Yale Athletic Board quite a while ago that when he got through coaching the 1927 football team he wanted to retire. Yale men asked him to reconsider; Jones did not change his mind. Last week his resignation took effect. Faced with the problem of chosing a new coach the Yale Athletic Board turned naturally to Marvin Alien Stevens, a handsome young man who came to Yale in 1922 from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter, and who for the last...