Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next he got down to the task of making up a program for Congress, a program you will come down and see me. . . ." that would send Congress home by May 15. To do so he had to sort out those measures that should still be passed; those others that could be allowed to die; those that must not be passed. Picked for passage: 1) The tariff bargaining bill, permitting the President to effect reciprocal tariff cuts with other nations; 2) the tax bill, although the President would like the coconut oil tax eliminated; 3) the law to extend the present...
...Tokyo Daily Asahi published an article tartly advising General Hayashi: "A simple apology is not enough atonement for the trouble you have caused. . . . your task is to continue getting soldiers out of politics...
...Keynote address was delivered by Secretary Browder, who cried: "Our task is to win the majority of the working class to our program. We do not have unlimited time to accomplish this. Tempo, speed of development of our work, becomes the decisive factor in determining victory or defeat. For Fascism is rearing its ugly head more boldly every day in the United States...
Died. Representative Edward William Pou of North Carolina, 70, of a heart attack; in Washington. As chairman of the potent Rules Committee under President Wilson he played an important part in putting through the Wartime program, in the same position under President Roosevelt he performed a similar task for recovery measures. Oldest member of the House in service (33 years), he twice waived seniority claims to be Speaker...
...outside world the candidate is a pestilence, and the snooping, prying novitiate is a bane to all civilized people. Even to those on the inside his behavior is inexplicable. In these days of emphasis on psycho-analysis it would not be a fruitless task for the psychological laboratories to delve deep into the inner makeup of the CRIMSON candidate...