Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...success of U. S. defense preparations may depend on more than loyalty-on the enthusiastic support and initiative of businessmen. The problem of national unity in 1940 may require that many a loyal citizen somehow be given a new faith in the Roosevelt administration...
Here at Harvard the Student Defense League and the Faculty Committee on Military Training are attacking the problem from a different approach. They propose, in addition to purely technical courses, a program of training in defense subjects to aid the draftees. This program has met with comparative apathy from the students and from the Army and Naval officials. It is in effect an attempted compromise between complete gearing of college to training and the complete divorce of college from training...
...affairs should be a great source of reassurance to those who cling to the hope that Harvard is something more than an educational factory. He lent a sensitive humanity to his dealings with the University that went far beyond the line of duty. One sees him worrying with the problem of supporting English a for five months on a balance of 82.25; or trying, as dean, to make the Freshman's problem of adjustment a less tortuos one; or, as bouscmaster, asking his assistants to find out which of the men in the house had to spend all their week...
...columnist act was born last year in the mind of Hollywood Agent Leo Morrison, who proposed it to Lolly, the logical choice. After her husband, Dr. Harry ("my favorite doctor") Martin, approved, Morrison hired Cinemauthor Edgar Allan Woolf to cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors, but that was no trouble for Columnist Lolly, whose more than 400 daily outlets and strong Hearst connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast...
Artist Velonis and his disciples can make up to 50,000 copies from most stencils, and undersell mechanical color printing on runs of 2,000 or less. One problem they have not yet solved: how to market their product...