Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When William Shakespeare was ready to write the story of Cleopatra, he needed nothing more than pen, ink, paper and his own lively genius. Three centuries later George Bernard Shaw required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more...
...allowed him to go home last week, Governor Black was still kept in New Deal harness under a new title?a favorite Roosevelt gesture when letting an important subordinate go. He was made "liaison officer" between bankers and the Administration. Asked if the continuous traveling involved in his new task was not too big an order. Governor Black, now 60, drawled: "Well, I am healthy, young and optimistic...
...come to you, very humbly, to enter this tremendous task. ... If I am elected your Governor there is not one person on the ticket I wouldn't cooperate with, not one person I couldn't go to and seek their advice. . . . And so, friends, I want you to know I know my limitations, and if our ticket goes over and if I should be your Governor I would carry out these policies of Bill's which were so soundly endorsed at the primary election. I shall try to do the most good for the most of the people...
...Vienna the task of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's new Government was not made any easier by his Minister of Interior, rough and imperious Major Emil Fey, long the stormy petrel of Austrian politics. Testifying at the trial of two of the 144 Nazis who seized Chancellor Dollfuss and himself in the Ballhaus fortnight ago, Major Fey changed his previous account of the dying Chancellor's last words...
...British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues of that sort. His real aim is to make Sterling the standard trading medium of the world, the king of currencies. Since the dollar abdicated all title to that regal role Mr. Chamberlain's task has been much eased. Last week the Canadian dollar was not pegged to Sterling as were the currencies of all other Dominions. Currencies of the following countries now move in close sympathy with Sterling: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil...