Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Aid. The most striking difference between Mr. Speers' articles of one week ago and those of last week was the growing evidence of protest against the Federal Government. The argument is not so much that Congress should meet and quickly solve the problem of flood control. The people of Louisiana do expect that the next session of Congress will concern itself with the problem of preventing future floods, but they are most interested in having something done to alleviate the results of the flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing...
...winter comes down on the impoverished country. Said Mr. Barham: (above mentioned) : "I think it is the duty of the Government to do something. . . . Don't you think it rather childish, to put it mildly, to expect the Red Cross with $15,000,000 to handle the whole problem, the damage bill alone of which will exceed $500,000,000? ... I don't know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested in these flood victims or not. . . . I don't recall reading where he has said a word about them since he went to Rapid City. . . . Mr. Hoover...
Fewer Delegates. Some 1,000 voting delegates made the trip to Seattle. Buying their tickets?for the N. E. A. does that, at excursion rates?is a problem that requires thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
...convinced that the Chinese revolution is a fact and armed intervention is utterly impossible as a means of solving either ^ the powers' problem or China's. China's mind has been definitely convinced that its ills are due to the foreigners and it will be impossible to eradicate them as long as the present treaty position exists...
...year more goods from the U. S. than she sells to that nation; and sells $345,000,000 more to Great Britain than she buys from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each...