Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tile, of course, embraces the Chinese problem, and the ramifications of industrial development, treaties, and troubles which featured the situation during that period, and their relation to the acute difficulties which are necessitating the present concentration of thousands of American marines in Shanghai...
...spite of this tremendous local problem, however, the Memphis people carried on their business activities, the necessary relief activities, and their program of entertainment for the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...population arguments based upon the data of economics and of vital statistics. In part we of the States are apathetic to the difficulties of the population problem because inordinate stores of natural resources, available at a time when scientific discovery promoted rapid exploitation, have made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs...
Complicated tortured, partly dimmed by the passage of seven years is the problem which Governor Fuller must analyze. As against the allegations discussed above, he will doubtless consider the facts that Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, tried by a jury of their peers, were found guilty; that Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived...
...There is, however, another side to the question. Mencken has got imitators. Why, Mencken himself has to combat that very problem in men writing for the the Mercury, who believe in the precept that imitation is sincerest flattery...