Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Secretary into Senator. The congressional program of the Administration as outlined last week was simple: to put the Government's necessary Supply bills ahead of all other business, postponing as long as possible all controversial subjects like Prohibition, Muscle Shoals, Power Commission, Lame Duck Session, Immigration, Farm Problem. Unemployment would be touched on in the Supply bills-extra appropriation to enlarge Federal building of roads, offices, ships, dams, dikes, barracks. But Chairman Bert Snell of the House Rules Committee, one of the Republican Big Three,* was acknowledging the likelihood and trying to soften the impact of Democratic-insurgent opposition...
...Roberts concluded that as confidence is restored in foreign investment fields, as situations like that created in Germany by Adolf Hitler are smoothed over, the U. S.-French "sterilized" gold will begin to circulate abroad again in fecund fashion. "With a free flow of capital between nations the gold problem will take care of itself...
...problem is solved at last. Yours again . . . always legal . . . (by the distinct provisions of Section 29 of the Prohibition Act*). . . . Absolute satisfaction or your money back. . . . Eight varieties: PORT, MUSCATEL. TOKAY. VIRGINIA DARE, CLARET. SAUTERNE, BURGUNDY, RIESLING. Five gallon keg: $14.75-Ten gallon...
Name of the amalgamated Church is another undecided problem. There are two existing bodies whose unwieldy names might be adopted or simplified-"Alliance of Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System," and "The General Council of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in America." But pat, handy, attractive was a name suggested last week: the American Church, a term not yet appropriated by any worshipping band...
Theoretically, the numerical reapportionment to a score of states of seats in Congress is the most important consideration. The abstract problem of selecting the grouping of districts comprising 250,000 persons each is bad enough. The unfortunate quality of the men controlling state politics presents as actual and certainly a more difficult obstacle. Since Massachusetts over a century ago instituted the general practice of gerrymandering, a strategic system whereby the party in office arranges the sections in such a manner that the voting power results in abnormal splits which always favors its own candidates, the thing has become a habit...