Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed protests from Louisianans against the land compensations provided under flood control...
...until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem...
Governor of the Federal Reserve Board is Roy Archibald Young, 47, solid, capable, popular. When the announcement was made his words were few and cryptic: ". . . [We] have considered how the resources of the Federal Reserve System might best be conserved and made available to meet autumn requirements. The problem has presented difficulties because of certain peculiar conditions." The increased rate was not adopted however for the Reserve Banks of Chicago or Philadelphia...
...American Federation of Labor. Among the celebrants were printers, upholsterers, teamsters, longshoremen, actors, men who play the oboe, others who play the market. Mr. Weber had news to impart about the ousting of cinema theatre orchestras by the "talkies," which constitutes Organized Music's most pressing problem (TIME...
...pedagogs did not heed this economic plea. After parents and students were put out of the room, the Board voted to dismiss the Dean, elected one David Wilson from Hampden Sidney College, Va. At most colleges the problem of cigaret smoking between classes is solved without economic and moral issues, without even any action by the college. Signs warn: "NO SMOKING IN THIS BUILDING-Border of the board of underwriters...