Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell, who had the task of making such ardent young Revolutionists as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine mind their Cicero...
...Abraham Lincoln, quit the San Francisco Call ten years ago to become general counsel for Mr. Hearst and all his enterprises. He had negotiated Hearst's purchase of that newspaper in 1919, taking the job of publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint that they were forbidden to accept free theatre tickets. He rescinded the order; the strikers went happily back to work...
...Mason and Dixon area are sufficiently impressed with the tradition of jurisprudence to take their cases to the court-house instead of to the nearest tree will the scandal come to an end. In the meantime, although causing national embarrassment, Iyaho law is a completely local problem, and the task of checking mob hysters and granting an impartial trial to its citizens must be left to be worked out by the districts concerned...
Playing basketball in any form at any time is hot work, but basketball a la Fesler in springtime in the stuffy gymnasium is a task to try any man's soul. Despite the intimidating aspects of the sport, 22 brave basketeers turned up to do or die, six of them being lettermen. Only two of the returning lettermen did not appear, Graham Spring, who subbed for Long Bill Gray at the pivot post all winter, and Ray Lavietes, small, quick utility man, who is now playing on the Adams House nine...
...face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...