Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of the forward wall, then, rests on who is to fill the two remaining positions. In the 20-minute scrimmage between teams A and B, Captain Barrett was at left tackle and W. Ticknor at right guard on the first eleven. In the signal drill which was held at the close of the more-than-two-hour session, Barrett was at left guard and Ticknor at right tackle. During the early afternoon proceedings, Trainer, veteran guard, and Davis were found at left guard and right tackle respectively, but they were both on Team B in the signal drill. Faxon...
Should the newly created committee devise some method to remedy this evil in the system, it would render a great service. This problem however is greater than that of giving a better education to those capable of receiving it: they must show that any reorganization they may suggest is consistent with the usual misintorpretation of the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence...
...Third problem was rounding up the prisoners, who, out on bail, were still conducting their businesses and living in their homes. Several sent brothers, friends or other proxies to answer to their names and numbers. One morning 13 prisoners arrived several minutes after proceedings had started. Judge Knox had to threaten to keep all the accused in jail until the conclusion of the trial if attendance records did not show an improvement...
...Fourth problem was getting witnesses to testify. The 81 accused, technically a trust, are really claimed to have operated a "racket" in poultry similar to the food rackets common to all large U. S. cities nowadays. They had formed a poultry association, lined up the poultry butchers (chiefly in Jewish sections of Brooklyn), raised poultry prices and divided the increased profits between butchers and association. The Government claimed that member-butchers were allotted certain customers, that nonmember butchers were intimidated and assaulted. One Government witness, a onetime association member, apparently remembered nothing of the story he had last winter recited...
...upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...