Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mynheer Zimmermann. Bald, suave, aristocratic, just, fluent master of five languages, for 15 years able Burgomaster of Rotterdam Dr. Zimmermann spoke with not unseemly pride of his achievements to newsgatherers last week: "I came to a country in financial chaos. The task which I undertook was an entirely new one, without precedent in history. . . . It was not an easy task...
...most curious Cabinets yet vouchsafed to France. Briand, as Premier and Foreign Minister, assumed the nominal generalship and resumed his long standing control of the Foreign Office. Caillaux, in the especially-created role of Vice Premier and Minister of Finance, took upon himself the fiscal rehabilitation of France-a task at which he failed notoriously, as Finance Minister under M. Painlevé(TIME, Nov. 9). The New Cabinet...
Horse races are run every day; baseball goes perpetually on; of tennis and golf there is no end. How is the sporting journalist to find new words to tell of these things? It is an impossible task, yet, somehow, the better members of the newspaper trade manage it. When they fail, their failure is usually confined to an inside page. But last week, in a two column story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon...
...Premier's task to transform such grodging admissions that the Pacts must be ratified into enthusiasm for the task. Mounting the tribune, M. Briand tuned his seductive voice by a preliminary cough...
...Hopkins, when he made his lucrative psychological discovery, had to "put it across" to manufacturers having things to advertise. That was where the head of the Lord & Thomas firm came in. Persuading manufacturers that of all advertising agencies Lord & Thomas was the only one for them was the colossal task of Albert D. Lasker, president. To know how he went about that task, and thus to comprehend how Lord & Thomas got in a position to inject all sorts of things into your life-Palmolive soap, Quaker Oats, Lucky Strike cigarets, Kotex,* among other things-you need a picture...