Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock the next morning the reports of these committees will be transmitted to the Assembly and after that there will be a discussion of the action to be taken by the League in the Chaco Dispute. Since to the Harvard delegation has been assigned the task of supporting the Paraguayan side of the question, this event will be of vital interest to them. Then, at 10.30 o'clock will come the first formal meeting of the whole Assembly, at which the president and committee chairman will be elected...
...whole success of the rather ephemeral Society, for on them rests the burden of selecting the first members and of adjusting all the innumerable details of organization and administration. Naturally they will be bombarded by recommendations from all over the country, and it will be a truly Gargantuan task to choose five or six Junior Fellows out of the mass of material available. The Committee will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must be taken to avoid too much reliance...
...However," pointed out Mr. Greenough, "the Crusaders are fully aware that much remains to be done. There is a hard task ahead of us, and our national organization will work for speedy ratification in every state in the Union. The Massachusetts Battalion will leave no stone unturned to have our state the first to ratify. I agree with Governor Ely that the State Legislature should take immediate action to provide for a convention...
...Realty Stabilization Corp., with a capital of $10,000,000 and an R. F. C. credit of $100,000,000, to rehabilitate the city's real estate and make it selfsupporting. Immediate purpose of the corporation, however, is to tide guaranteed-mortgage companies through the embarrassing task of meeting-and scaling down-$700,000,000 in maturing mortgages. Savings banks, insurance an a trust companies, which had been acutely conscious of the guaranteed mortgage companies' fix for months, were much relieved. Credit for the job went to New York Trust Co.'s Mortimer Buckner who had been...
...difficulty of this task caused the appointment of public-spirited William Church Osborn to head the new organization. Distinguished lawyer-Democrat, in 1918 he ran against Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial primary and was so impressed by his defeat that he became one of Governor Smith's stanchest supporters. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson, is a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, organized the aggressive Democratic Union. In Garrison, N. Y. he has a country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear...