Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with The Politicos, Matthew Josephson joined the ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...
...surprised that Mr. Monty Banks of Hollywood should take TIME to task for mentioning in an otherwise complimentary article about the British music hall performer, Gracie Fields, recently decorated by King George VI, that on the stage she is, of course, "vulgar...
...Hoover warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...
Orator Göring, addressing himself to the whole people of Austria in his economic role as Chief of the German Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), announced a 16-point program of Austrian economic rehabilitation. "Austria's economic reconstruction is the task of the Germans in Austria!" he cried. "Germany will furnish the necessary capital and strength. ... A year hence ask me whether I have kept my promises or whether you want to return to the Schuschnigg system...
...indicate that the speakers who won the awards were not capable and well trained. Nor do I intimate that the judges were consciously unfair. But when young men grow impassioned about the ideology and the problems of today, conservative scholars from another age should never be recruited for the task of judging. Their ideals must be so jarringly dissimilar that any true impartiality is at least unlikely...