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Word: tasks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coerced by mob rule. ... It is my sincere hope that those agitators who inspired yesterday's attack upon Federal authority may be brought speedily to trial. . . . There can be no safe harbor in the U. S. for violence. . . . Order and civil tranquillity are the first requisites in the great task of economic reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...good railroadman, that he had wasted his company's money in lavish expenditures on the road and on himself. But it was just as easy for the other side to say that throughout his career Sir Henry had forever been confronted with the difficult task of keeping out of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Chief Ousted | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given the task of rehabilitating the Long Island Railroad. With this experience, he left in 1914 for England. He carried two suitcases when he sailed, one filled with clothes, the other with reports of England's Great Eastern Railway of which he was to be general manager. He met the problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Chief Ousted | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...declaration which forms part of the Final Act of the Lausanne Conference the signatory powers express how the task there accomplished will be followed by fresh achievements. They affirm further that success will be more readily won if the nations will rally to a new effort in the cause of peace, which can only be complete if it is applied in both the economic and political spheres. In the same document the signatory powers declare their intention to make every effort to resolve the problems which exist at the present moment or may arise subsequently in the spirit which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Accord de Confiance | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...living has the qualifications for the task equal to the qualifications of President Hoover. . . . Say what you will about us, we're an experienced force. Is this the time to order veterans to the rear and put raw recruits in charge? I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: They're Off | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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