Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the seriousness of the situation that faced him, the first few days of Chancellor Schober's administration seemed to justify Vienna's blind faith. Telephoning vigorously, rushing from office building to office building, he completed and published a list of his cabinet within 24 hours, a task that had taken his predecessor Chancellor Streeruwitz three weeks. As a precautionary step against threatened Heimwehr-Schutzbund riots he suspended all military furloughs, ordered all Austrian troops to be ready for immediate action. In Vienna he suppressed an edition of the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting...
...this is the case, it is unfortunate that the high quality performance that has largely developed under the leadership of Dr. Davison should face the possibility, however general this possibility always is, of empty seats before them. Dr. Davison has performed a Herculean task in educating a great number of Harvard men to the enjoyment of high class choral music. His inspiring leadership has been common knowledge to those who have come in contact with him or with his pupils...
...Persuaded by President Hoover, Thomas Hildt, partner in an old Baltimore banking house (Alex Brown & Sons), consented to become financial adviser of the Federal Farm Board. His task: organizing a banking division to administer the $500,000,000 farm loan fund. His remuneration: nothing (by request...
...compile the annual report for such an organization is a long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
...reported that shortly before each of the bombs burst, witnesses had noticed a Ford sedan streaking down midnight streets and highways. Methodical detectives buckled down to the task of checking every Ford in North Germany. In Itzehoe, Prussia, a suspicious Ford was discovered last week...