Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically Major Attlee took the Prime Minister to task for having blamed the failure of Sanctions on the U. S. when Mr. Baldwin fortnight ago said: "Now there has been a great deal said about oil. The plain reason why an oil sanction was not put in force was that enormous quantities of oil came from a country that isn't a member of the League of Nations and which we had no reason to believe would prohibit the exportation of oil. This country is the United States...
...sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt...
Indiana & Conservation: ". . . George Rogers Clark did battle against the tomahawk and the rifle. He saved for us the fair land that lay between the mountains and the Father of Waters. His task is not done. Though we fight with weapons unknown to him, it is still our duty to continue the saving of this fair land...
...have retained any vestige of common sense," rasped Chancellor Chamberlain, "we must admit that we have tried to impose on the League a task beyond its powers. The circumstances in which the Italo-Ethiopian dispute began offered a most favorable opportunity to exercise the League of Nation's policy of 'collective security,' but that policy, based on Sanctions, has been tried out and has failed...
...FAIR A HOUSE-Welbourn Kelley- Morrow ($2.50). Reports the trials of a Carolina gentleman-writer and mill-owner who, already harassed by the task of bringing up three children in the absence of a philandering wife, becomes involved in a local labor war. Crammed with action and sexual intrigue, saturated with heavy sentiment, this chaotic melodrama reveals a disturbing picture of life in the South...