Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beauteous Nancy Fletcher Choremi, 27, daughter of a U.S. career diplomat, arrested last July as a $100-a-night Manhattan call girl (and convicted on evidence obtained by wire-tapping), was let off with a three-month suspended sentence. Said the judge: "The problem of prostitution is not solved in a criminal court. It is a social, economic and moral problem...
...Marshall Plan nations (plus Western Germany) are charged not only with building the framework of European cooperation but with allocations of U.S. help among themselves. If they had shown themselves unable to cope with the problem, the Marshall Plan would have bean in extremely grave peril. In Paris last week, with a sort of corrective lurch like that of a man who slips and regains his balance on an icy sidewalk, the negotiators reached agreement on allocations...
Conversation also turned to the problem of keeping China alive. Wrote Sherwood: "Stalin felt that China would remain alive. He added that they needed some new leaders around Chiang Kai-shek . . . The President said the fault lay more with the Chungking government than with the so-called Communists...
...Berlin had been wearily discussed in Moscow. Then, one night last week, the Western powers' special envoys relaxed: they went to see Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina. They had achieved "agreement in principle" (TIME, Sept. 6) with Russia. Now, like a pea in a shell game, the problem was passed back to Berlin, where the four military governors of Germany were instructed to work out an agreement in practice...
...Menace. Later in the day, all Hollywood began to share Mitchum's hang over. The press all over the U.S. was screaming "dope" scandal and hinting broadly that more sensations were to come. Clearly, a serious industrial crisis was in the making. The problem was much bigger than salvaging a valuable property named Mitchum, who had been nursed to stardom since he clicked with moviegoers in G.I. Joe. It was even bigger than protecting some $5,000,000 riding on three unreleased Mitchum films...