Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that body with the Allies. When the House went Democratic last December, he found himself second only to Chairman Collier of Mississippi on the Ways & Means Committee. When Chairman Collier fell ill and withdrew to recover, Mr. Crisp stepped into the committee's acting chairmanship at a most difficult time. Taxes had to be raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration...
Music Merger. A sharp, small Manhattan lawyer named Jacob Scholer was given a difficult task in 1929 by Irving Trust Co. He was to handle the run-down affairs of American Piano Co., petitioned into receivership. So well did he do it that within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...
...took courage on Mr. O'Kelly's part to stand for such proceedings at all. Later in the day Canadian Premier Bennett made a point of clasping Mr. O'Kelly in a warm embrace around the shoulders and publicly exclaiming, "I know, I know, my friend, how difficult this has been...
...good railroadman, that he had wasted his company's money in lavish expenditures on the road and on himself. But it was just as easy for the other side to say that throughout his career Sir Henry had forever been confronted with the difficult task of keeping out of politics...
...third day's run carried the Myth II to Cuttyhunk, Mass, where the Governor's skill in piloting her to a difficult mooring won praise from landlubbers of the Press. The captain of the Ambassadress sent over a roast duckling to go with pork & beans and canned peaches...