Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confronted with a difficult problem, the solution of which is obscure. . . . If Congress approves, I shall despatch a commission to Haiti to review and study the matter. . . . I request Congress to authorize such a commission and appropriate...
...their own industrial spheres. A committee of 72 was formed under Julius Barnes, board chairman, of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to survey U. S. business, to develop solutions, to make business line-bucks, the economic end-runs, industrial off-tackle plays, suggested by his fellow Julius. Sample problem: Automobile dealers pressed by manufacturers from above with new cars, overstocked from below with used cars...
...Another problem (recited by Dr. Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average...
...David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else, try to say what...
...What is the [Labor] government going to do about all this? If we had Hoovers in every country, the problem [of Disarmament] would be solved...