Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honest opinion that the Toronto [Jewish Congress] handled this "ersatz" problem in a most dignified and rational manner. All persons involved should be congratulated...
They went into conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
...issue. For the third time in two days, he repeated the same sledgehammer argument. "There is no blockade of Berlin . . . There is no threat to the peace . . . This fact is ineluctable, indubitable and inescapable . . . Only the Allied Control Council and the Foreign Ministers Council may correctly deal with the problem of Germany . . . If this question is not in relation to Germany, what is it? In the stratosphere? In the clouds? In an ivory tower...
...Baldwin Touch. The Conservatives denounced controls and praised free enterprise, but they rarely descended from generalities. Arguing about denationalization of already nationalized industries, one speaker brushed off a tough problem with oldtime Tory nonchalance: "If I don't like my eggs scrambled, I'll throw them away and prepare another dish to my choice." That was an unfortunate simile; few Britons these days have any eggs to throw away...
...forward wall is not to be depreciated either; while they are not much bigger than most of their ilk, they are fast enough to run interference for such men as Win Scott. All this adds up to a defensive problem for the Crimson, for fast-breaking plays can easily spell the death of a team which has already displayed many imperfections in this department...