Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which maintains its rule by shootings and tortures." Only in Germany and Italy, he cried, were the people 99% behind their governments. He branded Czechoslovakia as a pseudo-democracy forcibly created by the Treaty of Versailles, and accused former French Air Minister Pierre Cot of having once said: "The task of Czechoslovakia in a future war will be to bomb the key industries of Germany...
...there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms." The Congress asked a pardon for Tom Mooney, cabled exhortations of "courage" to Czechoslovak workers...
Columbus-Having successfully completed the task of restoring harmony and unity to the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, President Paul W. Fuller submitted his resignation August...
Main objective of the U. S. Maritime Commission in its task of reviving the U. S. merchant marine is the construction of at least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the commission wants well-trained men. In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous...
With the help of his "quintet" (which consists not of five, but of six instrumentalists), Composer Scott has recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings...