Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even if partially true, could such blatant and impolitic attacks serve ? While I am not wholly English, I admire the Prince. He is destined to rule a great nation whose domain covers the globe. He seeks first-hand knowledge by circumnavigating the earth. His is a severe and delicate task. and he has unquestionably shown remarkable vision and wisdom thus far. He is gracious to a fault; snobbishness he does not know or at least does not practice. The world has welcomed the Prince and no doubt will continue to do so long after Mary from Boston has ceased...
...great an emergency M. le Président naturally turned first to M. Briand, the national hero among active politicians, "the man of Locarno," already seven times Premier of France. M. Briand accepted the task of forming a cabinet with reluctance, but moved toward that end adroitly. He offered the Blum faction two or three cabinet posts under him; few enough so that they could not dictate or obstruct the policy of the cabinet, yet a sufficient number to make them "responsible" for Government acts and force them to support the cabinet in the Chamber...
...concern for the first six months of 1925 amounted to 11,000 trucks- equal to its entire 1924 output. Ever since 1921 Graham Bros, have enjoyed an arrangement with Dodge whereby they used Dodge engines as standard equipment and marketed trucks exclusively through Dodge dealers. As a result, the task of integrating the truck concern into the Dodge organization has already been largely accomplished...
...order that I might have a clear conception of my task in Syria, it was essential that the boundaries should be settled with neighboring territories. In our discussion we have agreed to hasten the delimitation of frontiers be tween Syria on the one hand and the British mandated territories of Palestine and Irak on the other. I also hope to go to Angora at an early date to settle the Syrian boundaries with Turkey. . . . My policy is to work with the League of Nations and to bring to Syria full independence at the soonest possible moment...
...Rome two humble composite minions took up the task of pleasing Dictator Mussolini once more. They were La Camera dei Deputati and Il Senato. Together they formed perhaps the most enthusiastically abject Parliament ever assembled upon the Seven Hills...