Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, all of whom are killed. The accident upsets him terrifically and his mental state gets somewhat non compos. Noble friend in need sticks by him and helps him with the lady who is very much concerned and makes constant effort to save young man from himself--a task of questionable value. Mental trouble finally disappears and the audience departs in satisfaction if not extreme pleasure. George Brent quite bad as the sal young man, Kay Francis attractive as young lady. Warren William quietly capable as trusty Samaritan. The photography ample, but not extraordinary. The humor weak, except where unintentional...
...Contrary to the popular belief, the lists as drawn up by the Masters were accepted practically intact, and the task of the Central Committee was confined largely to distributing the men who could not be cared for in the Houses for which they had expressed a special claim and those who had expressed no claim...
...Central Committee also approached its task as a cooperative enterprise in which the initiative was left as much as possible to the House authorities, the Committee serving chiefly as a clearing center. The fact was emphasized that the task of the Committee is one of distribution; the final admission of a student to a House rests with the Master...
Balance. When Franklin Roosevelt cast up accounts and definitely decided upon NRA's renewal, he had no easy task to decide on the form renewal should take. To surrender to either group of vested interests would have made enemies of the other. In addition he had a third group to satisfy, businessmen who believe that if a business writes its own ticket it will soon bankrupt the economic railroad on which it is traveling. What good, they ask, does it do a business to fix prices or restrict production if high prices ruin its market...
Last week Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board took its own means of defending itself against the American Federation of Labor's onslaughts, over which President Roosevelt had taken the Federation publicly to task week before (TIME...