Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexperienced, but as yet he has failed to exhibit traces of the dynamic, directing energy which is necessary to knit the local organizations into a great unit for the purposes of a national campaign. Many of the local units are strong, but they remain largely uncoordinated. The difficult task of altering this condition, therefore, rests largely on the candidate himself. He has been overtaken by a host of necessary conferences, of campaign appointments, of arrangements for raising adequate campaign funds. His duties are doubled. He has Herculean labor ahead...
Reply. Chancellor Marx replied: "The task which confronts us is of decisive and historical importance. We are convinced that upon the solution of this task the fate of Germany, the fate of Europe depends. We are equally convinced that this task can be achieved only if the spirit of peaceful agreement and strict fairness prevails. The German delegation will negotiate in that spirit...
...candidate for Vice President is one of the most outspoken enemies of Labor and is the founder of an organization dedicated to the task of writing, into all political platforms, planks calling for the anti-union shop?an organization which also encouraged and supported the Daugherty injunction against the railroad shopmen...
...raise the destroyers, which is the easier task, Cox & Danks bought a floating submarine dry-dock which formerly belonged to the Germans. This was remodeled to act as a double pontoon. By passing cables under the hull of a destroyer and attaching hooks, it was hoped that the destroyer could be lifted in two days. The first attempt was a failure. The cables snapped after the destroyer had been lifted seven feet; the lifting-gear was badly 'damaged...
...ship will become buoyant and rise to the surface. There are many "ifs" in the process, however. The divers may have great trouble in discovering all the openings. Bulkheads may be weak or damaged, may give way when pressure is put on them. It will be a great task...