Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends remained close through the years. One day Grant spied Prime Minister MacDonald in a London subway, took him to task for wasting his energy unnecessarily, told him he should use a motor. When MacDonald, who had no private income, explained that he could not afford the upkeep of a car, Grant gave him one and endowed it with 30,000 preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely...
Last February, The Nation antagonized its angel by greeting Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan with tempered approval as "a brilliant tour de force. . . . It is the task of progressives to support the measure-with an open-eyed awareness of its shortcomings...
According to President Hopkins the task completed by the editor was a "comprehensive collection of biographies," written "with authority, completeness, brightness, and brevity...
...interior, put in some plumbing, and spray onto the walls that etherial something which makes a House different from any other dwelling. Then, in the fall, this little addition will welcome its small brood of a dozen or so, square its shoulders, and prepare itself for the mighty task of filling the gap until that distant day when a real solution materializes...
...politician but as a career colonial administrator did Theodore Steeg make his reputation. After serving as Minister of the Interior, to whom all French police are responsible, from 1912 through the War until 1920, he served as Governor-General of Algeria for four years, then was given the difficult task of succeeding France's late great colonial administrator, bristle-topped Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey, as Resident General of Morocco. He did well enough in the four years he held the post to win him the task he was faced with last week, the most serious crisis French Morocco...