Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them an apparent value far above their real value. For 23 court days the prosecution and its corps of expert accountants wrestled with the problem of demonstrating to judge and jurors the financial intricacies of the Insull collapse. That job proved to be even more difficult than the long task of chasing Mr. Insull up & down the Aegean and practically shanghaiing him back to the U. S. for trial (TIME...
...question of fraudulent character is clearly one for the jury." In nonjudicial terms, the Judge meant that Samuel Insull and his co-defendants might well be guilty of mail fraud unless the defense put up a good answer to the charges. Last week the defense buckled down to the task...
...cannot see why Prof. Magoun needs to be called severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
Hopes are entertained that the long awaited plaque of President Eliot will make its appearance at the banquet. It is planned to place this memorial in his old room in Holworthy Hall, and the completion of this task will mark the first finished project of the recently revived Society...
...that department. Prospective Freshmen should be asked to indicate that field in which they have a particular interest, and advisors should be assigned on the basis of this tentative preference. Such a system provides a group of men who are fitted by temperament, experience, and interest to perform the task of guidance...