Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall, when he was called, he took on the apparently hopeless task of rebuilding the Democrats' dwindling bank balance. He coaxed a whopping $1,500,000 out of contributors. Early this year, a grateful Harry Truman recalled: "There were times in this campaign when we were pretty well strapped. We couldn't buy radio time; we couldn't even pay for transportation. But we did get Louis Johnson interested . . . and from the time he began operations we were able to make the necessary tours and get some of the radio time necessary...
When the news of her victory reached Dr. Van Waters yesterday, she remarked that "the main task is to keep this great public interest which has been aroused functioning in constructive channels ... The great good is that the public has learned something about the needs and nature of the woman offender...
...Morris Cohen resigned from C.C.N.Y. in 1938, he hoped to spend the last years of his life writing down all that he had learned on his journey. Though he wrote several books (Faith of a Liberal, A Preface to Logic, etc.), he never felt he had quite finished his task. Until his death, he was tortured by the books still unwritten, "haunted by the things . . . left unsaid." Actually, he knew that his books, like his teaching, would probably provide the world with no pat solutions. They could only underline his constant faith in "keeping the windows open on the Beyond...
...from Columbia, and brought him back to Washington for what may turn out to be one of the General's most difficult assignments. The President designated Eisenhower to act as temporary head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal; the general's task is to try and clear up the long-running fight between the armed services which has so severely cut the efficiency of our national security program...
...reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office of the Secretary of Defense was finally created to supervise three specialized secretaries for Air, Navy and Army. The basic conflicts on wartime functions made the services wary of putting too much executive power in the job, however...