Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to see alert, big-voiced Comptroller Sproul, he might be found busy at the university's work on the oak-grown Berkeley campus, or among the broad vineyards at Kearney, or in the fat fields of Davis. As it was when he was comptroller, his task as president will be the administration of a $60,000,000 plant whose holdings include over 13,000 acres, whose annual income is $11,000,000 from state, federal and private sources?California's biggest cultural investment...
Graduates. The task of gathering funds from the legislature (which falls to any state college president) is considerably ameliorated in the case of California, for Governor Young was graduated in the class of 1892. Among other of California's celebrated sons and daughters: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; Authors Charles Norris and Jack London; Humorist Sam Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber...
Vital to Canada has been the need of rehabilitating British Empire Steel. In scope and assets the company is second only to the Dominion's two railroads. Practically the entire industrial life of Nova Scotia depends on it. Yet the task has been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both...
...send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task of exploiting Cuba, frankly admitting that his papers will profit thereby...
...land, I favor generous appropriations for their enforcement. ... I favor the use of such appropriations for that portion of enforcement which is pre-eminently the duty of the Federal Government . . . keeping liquor from coming into the country and passing into interstate commerce. . . . Until it performs that task, it might well leave all local police duty with the States...