Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later this year there will be an official gathering of the nations for a final discussion resulting, it is to be hoped, in a settlement and acceptance. The task facing us here at Harvard is the formulation of a brief which the United States representatives at his last conference may present as their country's attitude and recommendations...
...main objective of the Hoover plan, I take it, is to provide for the alleviation of general unemployment, when it occurs, by increasing the expenditures of the federal and state governments on public works which are to be held in abeyance in anticipation of such contingencies. The immediate task is to arrange for the recording of the facts which will show when, where, and how much unemployment exists...
Should an adding machine be used to figure the capital controlled by and associated with Manhattan's newest investment trust, the machine, if adding only to 999,999,999 would fail in its task. For when, last week, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. merged with Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., ten digits were required to express the resources affected by the merger. True, each of the companies will put into the combine a mere $122,000,000, giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas...
...reassuring that a great university and its experts should take an active part in such a creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems...
...Assembly further resolved to entrust the Council with the task of appointing a Preparatory Committee, composed of five persons possessing a wide knowledge of international practice, legal precedents, and scientific data relating to the questions mentioned above. This committee met in Geneva, February 6 to 15, 1928, and prepared a "Schedule of Points", which was circulated to various governments with requests for information on the points listed...