Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editors Harris were ordered to remain as editors, while a reorganization is effected. Simple was the explanation for the action as outlined by the Macon Telegraph next day: "The two Harrises . . . have made a real contribution to this state, because they have dared to think and say. . . . Their task was not simply to continue a going newspaper?it was to bring an almost moribund newspaper to a healthy state. Insufficient capital, economic conditions and enmity they had aroused in some of their fights have all handicapped them. In all their troubles the Harrises have not complained...
Correspondents, waked out of Christmastime daydreams, rushed to their typewriters. In dull news season, Congressman Upshaw made many a first page next morning. A few days later, called to task for his gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every...
When the country where the swans do live is finally reached then comes the catching and marking of the cygnets, no mean task as anyone can discover by rowing a boat around a pond in pursuit of a small duck. Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they...
That was the note on which, last week, the Senate Finance Committee closed its public tariff hearings. The Democratic members of the committee were politely ushered out while the Republicans in their shirt sleeves huddled themselves down to the task of redrafting a tariff measure to be presented to the Senate a month hence...
...hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to find candidates with fighting hearts...