Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to offer them the opportunity of doing some constructive work. . . . [Let a committee of editors] make specific recommendations as to just what expenditures should be reduced or abolished. With their intimate knowledge of the State's financial affairs it ought not to be a long task...
Last week Editor Shaw explained the Committee's task to the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers' Association, meeting in Boston. Said he: "It is not [our] intent to oppose legislation but to accentuate it through the medium of accurate figures on what we get for what we spend. . . . The Committee does not contemplate any time-clock study to determine whether Bill Jones earns his pay spreading tar in highway repair work or whether a department head is worth the salary . . . paid by the State. It has a much broader plan." The assembled publishers cross-examined Editor Shaw for more...
...Chadbourne, the able Manhattan lawyer who undertook to play daddy to the Cuban sugar industry by obtaining a production agreement among the sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation seem futile. Then he saw his plan verge on failure...
...protection of parents, there is still a gap in knowledge. No one has thus far sent a questionnaire to the children, and the annoyances suffered by the little innocents remains an undetermined factor. To make such a survey fair and just, and free from political corruption, moreover, is a task for the infant Hercules. But in a moment of hasty judgment, seizing on boldness, here is the advice. Let the research workers and the parents enter the kindergarten, and some youthful prodigy, it may be warranted, will make a survey to startle the world...
...importance of efficient and accurate entrance examinations cannot be overemphasized. When a university is faced with the task of selecting some eight hundred students out of two or three thousand applicants, it must be certain that the methods by which these men are picked are an accurate measure of their ability and will correlate closely with their subsequent college records. The intellectual standard of the undergraduate body, and indirectly of the institution itself, is at stake. Therefore any improvement of the methods of selection, even though it changes entirely the traditional basis of selection, is to be welcomed. What...