Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council of the League of Nations solved last week the most vexatious problem which has arisen to confront the League, discovered and adopted a formula under which to admit Germany, and Germany alone, to an additional permanent seat on the League Council...
...Council of the League of Nations solved last week the most vexatious problem which has arisen to confront the League." What problem...
...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...
...Senator George of Georgia has a problem to face that would irk any statesman. He is battling for renomination in the Democratic primaries (equivalent to election) against the father of 16 children. This man with these 16 potent arguments in his favor, is Judge Richard B. Russell, whose advocates say that "a man who has done so well by his country ought to be rewarded with the U. S. Senatorship...
...Vigilant Wets howled about a Government which tried to poison its drinkers. Said the New York World: "Jonathan Swift had much the same idea of a short cut to the solution of a vexatious problem when he wrote his Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or the Country. Swift's proposal was to fatten the children and then eat them. Swift wrote in irony. The Prohibition Bureau is in earnest. The goal of its research is a poison which will kill...