Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second important task of the new board will be to help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market...
...task dear to the President's heart last week was laying the cornerstone for the new Department of Commerce Building (TIME, May 6). He made a speech, wielded the same trowel George Washington used in laying the cornerstone of the Capitol...
...Another task equally pleasant for the Engineer-President was his appointment of 17 delegates, famed engineers all, to represent the U. S. at the World Engineering Congress at Tokyo next October...
...dinner and to emphasize party dissensions served to rally many a Democrat to its defense. Senators who had declined asked permission to attend. Bishop Cannon denied he had attempted to scare anybody away. The sight of chuckling Republicans aroused party pride. Leaders again bent themselves grimly to the task of harmony...
James Henry Thomas's real duties will be to act as a Minister of Employment. To him the Prime Minister gave the mighty task of settling Britain's unemployment, gravest problem in England today...