Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, he writes at the beginning: "The Tacna-Arica controversy has engaged my closest attention ever since I assumed the duties of Secretary of State. All of my predecessors in this office during the past 40 years have followed with the deepest interest the varying phases of the problem, and several Secretaries, especially my immediate predecessor, Mr. Hughes, have been intimately concerned, as I have been, with the task of contributing, if possible, to its solution...
Tariff. "Industry has acquired an export-surplus problem nearly as acute and difficult as that of agriculture. It is therefore less interested in the tariff than it formerly was. There is a large financial and industrial interest which already holds that American industry is outgrowing tariff protection. It would be in the highest degree unwise for farmers at this time to launch an attack on the tariff without carefully considering the possibility that in the near future they may need it more than any other economic group in the country...
...gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love had slipped away years before. Playwright Maugham presents what, a decade or two ago, would have been termed a "problem play," done with a modish superciliousness. He offers two reasons for a woman's being faithful to an errant spouse: her debt for board and lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity...
...tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro problem-civil equality, amalgamation, colonization, segregation, creation of a Black Belt Free State-and finds them all insufficient or impossible. He concludes that there is no solution, that there has always been friction where Negroes and Caucasians have lived side...
Attacking a different problem, Woodrow Wilson once said, "these boys are bound together in all their social relationships but have no intellectual ties . . . the ties of fellowship, the ties of membership, the center of it all should be an intellectual thing." This is the fundamental fault in most intercollege relationships. They are fraternal in the emotional sense, or athletic or sentimental, but seldom based on the community of the mind. Here lies the importance of intersectional debating, the Student Federation, and other fundamentally intellectual relationships in the collegiate world...