Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college enrollments and expenses rise and the need for aid funds increases, Bender predicted, colleges will tend to "swallow hard when funds with objectionable terms or procedural requirements come along, and accept." He said the problem is making financial aid officers into "greedy mendicants...
...intend to propose a solution that will eliminate the constant reiteration of the problem," he added...
Morgan Guaranty by the custom services and ingenuity in solving financial problems that have become the firm's trademark. Many businessmen agree that Morgan's service is unexcelled. It will do everything from solving the complex problem of establishing the market values of new shares-even though the companies have no established value-to working out a novel method of financing freight cars or oil tankers. After being turned down by several banks, a group of utilities that wanted to finance an atomic reactor turned to Morgan; in a few days, the bank set up the plan...
...sent to explain a legal problem to the younger J. P. Morgan. After he left, Morgan said: "I like that young man." Alexander's law firm assigned him to work as counsel for Morgan in the congressional investigations, and he became Morgan's chief counsel at the Nye munitions hearing, stayed by his side through his entire testimony. On Christmas Eve in 1938, Morgan summoned Alexander to his Wall Street office and invited him into partnership. After agonizing for more than a month about leaving the active practice of law, Alexander became a Morgan partner...
...fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes after World War II, but the comments on housing developments, new cars and the Negro problem sound tacked on, like dutiful after-dinner small talk...