Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization but breed disease. . . ." Tenancy- "I do not suggest that every farm family has the capacity...
...thirty-seven, as dean is of the widest interest. There will be general agreement, we are confident, that President Conant and the Board of Overseers could not have made a happier choice. There were many worried faces in Wall Street when to this earnest young professor was assigned the task of helping to tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard Law School since the days of Justice Brandeis. But what...
...This piece is openly provocative and cannot be interpreted in any other way than calling for Trotsky's assassination. You need only give the implements of assassination to the assassin to complete the task...
...loose ends together into some good middle courses. This is especially important in the Medieval and Early Modern History fields. Let us hope that the energy and ingenuity now applied to periodic course renumberings will soon be directed to thorough course revisions. Course revision would make the student's task lighter, the tutorial work more effective, and the History field more attractive and worthwhile...
...long ministry and professorship were marked by two outstanding contributions to the University. With the abolition of compulsory attendance at Morning Prayers in 1886 and his appointment as Plummer Professor it fell to him to interpret and administer the policy of complete freedom in religious worship. In this task he was vigorously supported by President Eliot, Phillips Brooks, and by other members of the Board of Preachers. He was fond of saying that there was no such thing as a "compulsory prayer," and he derived great satisfaction from the fact that attendance at Morning Prayers, though availed of by comparatively...