Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Read to both Houses by their clerks, the message started with a discussion of the business recession and legislative means toward ending it. Said the President: "The fundamental situation is not to be compared with the far different conditions of 1929. . . . Obviously an immediate task is to try to increase the use of private capital to increase employment. . . . Private enterprise, with co-operation on the part of Government, can advance to higher levels of industrial activity than those reached earlier this year. . . . Such advance will assure balanced budgets. . . . If private enterprise does not respond, Government must take up the slack...
...privileges according to the push and pull of organized interests. Is this conceivable in a democracy?" This conception of democracy's limitations is quite different from that of the founding father who said: "The regulation of these various and interfering interests (landed, mercantile, monied, etc.) forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government...
...spark of genius in a thoroughly unspectacular outfit of Varsity grapplers will be the prodigious task of Coach Pat Johnson this year. Set back only by the loss of '37 Captain Brooks Cavin and Lorrin Woodman, semi finalist in the Spring Intercollegiates, a determined squad, heavily re-enforced by a brilliant Freshman octet, has begun daily workouts in the Athletic Building...
Arbitrary division of the Supreme Court into liberals and conservatives is a delicate and-since Justices do not always live up to their labels-not always a profitable task. Nonetheless, the last five years have tended to crystallize differences of political thought as clearly on the Supreme Court as elsewhere in the U. S. and in the light of their decisions the three conservatives on the bench at least constitute a cohesive minority united by their profound faith in the rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime...
...task was to move 500 tons of mining plant and workers from La Paz 60 miles over the peaks to the long disused Tipuani Valley Mine lying almost at sea level in a depression between the Andes. At take-off an airplane must rise from a landing field at La Paz, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, and immediately rise another 8,000 feet to clear the crest of the Cordillera before descending into the narrow valley...