Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory systems in 33 States which in fact were not discriminatory; 2) would lead to anti-anti...
...ranks of the student, Gropius says that he is here "to study the extraordinary building organization, which is at present unsurpassed in the world," and "which has provided an instrument of such wonderful perfection that I think any architect would feel inspired and eager to take part in the task of developing the American architecture of the future...
...William Draper Lewis, longtime (1896-1914) dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Law School, called on the late great Elihu Root with a plan which he and Harvard's Joseph Henry Beale had discussed for years: the establishment of a law clinic charged with the monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate...
Stopping its fashion studies just short of an autumn forecast, the B.I.S. dolefully predicted that gold-laden lands like the U. S. and Britain "will presumably continue to be faced with the task of absobing large and increasing amounts of new gold, and the continuation of the policy of sterilization will involve them in ever increasing expenses...
...finance has been as thoroughgoing as his experience as a teacher of economic theory. Thus, for the last four years--years that have been extraordinarily critical banking-wise--Dr. Williams has divided his time between teaching his classes at Cambridge and taking an active and intimate part in the task of running the nation's financial system...