Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...code, not to have the illusory certainty of a legislative enactment, but as a source to which judges and lawyers may resort for precise and comprehensive information, possessing the only lasting authority, that of learning and accuracy. It is a colossal undertaking; some might say it is the task of Sisyphus...
...resides not merely in the number of laws. It is in badly drawn laws. It is also in the compromises of legislation where the contests of opposing policies are satisfied by ambiguous phrases which transmit the difficulties of legislative bodies to the courts, who are left with the burdensome task of discovering the legislative intent, when actually there has been no defined legislative intent...
General Hans von Seeckt, Comman-der-in-Chief of the Reichswehr ( German Federal Defence Force), started the move by writing to Herr Ebert, President of Germany. Said he: "I believe the task that fell to me has practically been fulfilled. The authority of the State has been so strengthened that the measures initiated under the exceptional State ordinance for the rehabilitation of our national and economic life can be carried on without it. In case you, Herr Reichspresident, share my view, I request you make it public...
President Ebert replied that he fully shared the General's views and expressed his thanks to him and to the Reichswehr for the excellent manner in which they acquitted themselves of their "heavy task." He then made public the announcement of the revocation of martial law to take effect on March...
...Philadelphia, Josephus Daniels took his pen in hand and prepared to depart for North Carolina. He was engaged by the John C. Winston Co. to write a biography of Woodrow Wilson. He will prosecute his task at his North Carolina home. Said Mr. Daniels: "The book will begin with his birth and go right through his whole career...