Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duties all over the country, he is yet accessible to the humblest employe of the Bureau. . . . If General Hines leaves us, as a result of the new combination we shall certainly regret the day it occurred. Being Director of the Veterans' Bureau as it is, is a herculean task for any man. . . . CLAUDINE FERGUSON...
...accusations against the Amtorg are absolutely without foundation. . . . The Amtorg has built up a substantial credit position. The accusations against the company have undoubtedly harmed its reputation with some firms. The further development and even the continuance of Soviet-American trade will be an almost impossible task unless the accusations against the company are . . . as we confidently expect them to be, found to be baseless...
...unless the Fish Committee exonerated Amtorg. In Moscow, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov enunciated this threat explicitly. If the committee was not impressed, the business world that does a $100,000,000 per year business with Russia was. The New York Journal of Commerce took the committee to task for trampling about in a field of international trade where it had no business...
...home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto and score for Peter Ibbetson, his second grand opera; that he would not take a vacation until the orchestration was done?a task requiring three more months at least...
Belden V. Plimsoll, president of Inter-continental Adding Machine Co., was no ordinary father. He saw no reason why principles and practice which had brought him business success should not be applied to the ticklish task of bringing up his only daughter. Lollie was pretty and had reached years of indiscretion. Her mother's clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were...