Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bland: An exact reproduction of the surrender would involve the difficult task of training several thousand regular Army men in close formation fighting...
...home should find no place in civilized society. We must not, however, be unmindful that while Nevada contributes to the state of delinquency, the other States contribute the delinquents, and if barbarism prevails in Nevada today, it is because the other States have failed in their task of civilizing the barbarian whose untamed and unbridled nature seeks surcease in that Utopian Mecca of ceaseless, seething marital confusion made possible by the laws of Nevada...
...task was to fill the vacancy by the appointment of a man whose training and experience gave the greatest promise for the protection of the health of the people of Virginia. The field of preventative medicine is a highly specialized one. There are tens of thousands of physicians trained to cure disease for every one trained to prevent its spread. Proven experts in this latter field are necessarily confined almost exclusively to officials in the health departments of National, State and municipal governments. The range of selection is therefore comparatively limited. Inasmuch as communicable disease is no respecter of State...
...With Dr. Van Waters the eleven Wiclcersham Commissioners agreed that the Federal Government was doing nothing to help its young criminals back to social health. Declared Report No. 5: "The Federal Government is not equipped to serve as a guardian to the delinquent child. Nor should it assume this task. Whenever a child has broken a Federal law, his local community has failed in its responsibility. This duty is local, not national. The community has facilities with which to perform it. The nation has not. It is desirable from every point of view that the Federal Government be empowered...
...Mellon, who had piled up ten annual surpluses in a row, .was away in Paris when the Treasury had to make its dismal accounting to the country. A depression far beyond his darkest estimates had hit the Government's pocketbook and now to his chief assistant fell the unpleasant task of making explanations...