Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The picture is clear enough: two nations glaring at each other over the tops of their high tariff walls. There is no dispute as to the right of France to erect a tariff wall as high as that of the U. S., or even higher. The problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment...
Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...
After shaking hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the 792,509 sq. mi. governed by them, the Colorado River...
...President did not reply directly to this demand but launched upon a short history of the Indian Problem, which began when white and red men first saw each other some four and one quarter centuries ago; which ceased to be violent with the battle of Wounded Knee, S. Dak., (near Pine Ridge) in 1890; which entered a new phase in 1924 when President Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all native-born Indians citizens...
...asked him what particular problem confronted Anglo-Jewry today. He answered: "Inter-marriage. This is a serious problem in English Jewry. The Jew here, perhaps more than any other country in the world, is accepted on his own merits. This is especially true among the better classes, where, unlike America, there is no social prejudice, and no social barriers of any sort as between Jews and non-Jews. "The solution lies in the strengthening of Jewish consciousness and of Jewish convictions. When you consider for how many years the wealthier Jews in this country have been living together with...