Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm relief problem centres on two bills. The Tincher bill (supported by the Administration) carries $100,000,000 to be lent as a revolving fund to farmers' cooperatives to aid them in solving their crop surplus problems. The Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...Doumer (TiME, March 15) ; Loucheur (TIME, Dec. 28) ; Painleve and Bonnet (the latter served as "Budget Minister," an office created to deal with this one problem) (TIME, Nov. 30) ; Caillaux (TIME...
...possesses a Phi Beta Kappa key and a diploma won at the University of Virginia. Well-posted citizens of every nation know him as an outstanding champion of peace in China. Recently he said: "The Chinaman's first problem is to live. Fundamentally our people are simple souls. They want to be clean and prosperous...
Other Women's Husbands. Marriage-problem films are almost unquestionably the worst. They are cheap, obvious, false. This one is the same old story about the man who became interested in another woman when his wife went to the country...
...DANCER'S CAT?C. A. Nicholson?Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An ostentatiously esoteric tale, the core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually...