Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going back to his office, Mr. Mellon had still to ponder the problem of who should be appointed as the new chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The incumbent, David H. Blair, had resigned. Among candidates for the vacancy were Charles R. Nash of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon's State; E. C. Alvord, Mr. Mellon's legislative adviser; Chairman Benjamin...
Carefully considered, however, the reparations problem seemed none too healthy. Weeks of negotiations had brought the demands of the creditors and the offers of the Germans within striking distance of each other. Comparatively slight concessions on either hand would bring about an agreement, but it was just these final concessions that seemed last week impossible to obtain...
Having settled the wheat problem...
...Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile to Peru to boot-all this had been virtually agreed upon by the two countries prior to President Hoover's interest in the problem or Ambassador Moore's arrival on the scene. The ambassadorial smile in the picture was purely ambassadorial. Why he wanted to go to little Peru after lordly Spain remained a mystery and a secret, except to a few well-informed Peruvians not yet ready to give complete details...
...committee has also suggested that the problem should not be ap- proached from the quasi-scientific point of view but should be attacked from the human angle. Vocational guidance charts, in many cases, the course which the man will sail for the rest of his life. Therefore, there should be no barriers between the man and the guide. Everything possible should be done to make the seeker feel free to talk in detail about his private life and his future hopes. To further this end, I believe that guidance should be done not in any bustling office, with its paraphenalia...