Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's end the amiable, rumpled Marquess of Lothian, returning to his post after a visit to Britain, stepped off the Atlantic Clipper at LaGuardia Airport, a dispatch case in his hand, England's problem on his shoulders. The British Ambassador told newsreels, reporters...
...last six words dumped a new problem into Franklin Roosevelt's lap. After five damp days away from the telephone on the yacht Potomac, the President had worked three days in the White House, then had traveled to Hyde Park House for a four-day weekend. There, the day before Lord Lothian returned, he had told the press that the question of advancing credits to Britain had not yet been considered by the Government...
Much has Hooton said on the evolutionary decay of modern man, on the biological factor in crime, but this is his fullest survey to date of the biology- &-behavior problem in general. He trades hard punches with social scientists, or at least with extreme behaviorists among them who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. Hooton's contention: since feeblemindedness can be inherited, why not feeble morality? A favorite phrase of his is "moral imbecile...
...Last year the Department sponsored the spectacular five-day intravenous drip treatment for syphilis (TIME, April 22). It is now analyzing 25,000 records of heart-disease cases, keeping close tabs on youngsters with rheumatic heart disease, No. 1 killer of school children. Next big problem, says Dr. Charles Frederick Bolduan, Di rector of Health Education, is control of diabetes. Over 75,000 New Yorkers are diabetics...
Topics under consideration will include the question of the place of partisanship in the defense program; participants will also argue whether the program undermines our democratic institutions, and whether capital and labor can both make equal contributions towards solving the problem of rapid armament...