Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty, far from "swimming with the tide," as the author has put it, has provided a competent officer to give religious advice to all those who need it. In doing no more it has acted wisely. Fighting the conditions and spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task. To push the issue as far as Professor Bell suggests would certain be inadvisable, and might work irreparable harm...
...Maine imposes need for renewed and stronger effort that the people may fully understand the issues at stake. We have known all along that, owing to the ravages of the world depression, our fight is a hard one; but we have a strong case and a right cause. Our task is to acquaint every man and woman in the country with the facts. . . . My chief concern now is that the work of reconstruction shall go forward. . . . This transcends all personal or partisan considerations...
...House, before he was retired by the late Dwight Whitney Morrow in the 1930 Senate contest, Mr. Fort specialized in agricultural legislation, fancied himself as an urban expert on farm problems. Patterned after the Government's land bank system, the Home Loan Board will shortly organize for the task of discounting prime mortgages on small houses...
...Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...
Music Merger. A sharp, small Manhattan lawyer named Jacob Scholer was given a difficult task in 1929 by Irving Trust Co. He was to handle the run-down affairs of American Piano Co., petitioned into receivership. So well did he do it that within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...