Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest benefits you will derive from your training in the Harvard Business School will be the ability to realize a good thing when you see it and act accordingly. As a preliminary problem to many others which will follow in the regular course of the year the following problem has been presented to you for your immediate consideration...
...come into economic favor in the years since the war. In particular, the Student Council budget for undergraduate activities has justified itself in the most practical way possible, oversubscription. In place of a multiplicity of drives featuring perspiring collectors and an indifferent collection, the single drive disposes of the problem for the year...
Henry's Harem. Before a perplexed audience at the Greenwich Village Theatre, an abortive theatrical creature flapped its uncoordinated parts. For two acts it fumbled with Henry's problem- how to marry off three sisters in six months. Everything seems happily managed, when lo! into the third act comes an utterly unheralded complication-and Henry goes to the district attorney's office. It is gradually divulged that Henry, to adorn his sisters with a marital background, had bartered skim milk instead of cream. For no good reason he is released and the entire cast pairs...
...color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...
...graduated from Wabash College (Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...