Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snap is a low trick, nonetheless low for being common, and it was the master's task last week to make it appear lofty. Since he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament last week a full year before its term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before...
...Herriot's task last week to win re-election as Party Leader with nothing to offer but his traditional platform of Patience. Such a keynote can be sounded with effect only by a great orator and Edouard Herriot is of the greatest. When Orator Herriot had done with PATIENCE it glowed mellow and desired by all. Without a dissenting voice he was re-elected Leader for the fourth consecutive year by acclamation...
...which dawns today," concluded Mr. King, a politician of the grand old school, "we take up at once, as our supreme task, the endeavor to end poverty in the midst of plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage...
Richelieu's Condition. "Italians love a display of emotion to an extent the English would regard as disgusting," continues Dr. Finer. "Hence the task of government has been, is, and always will be different in Italy from in England. . . . In the apt American phrase, Mussolini is a spellbinder. . . . Yet Mussolini is more controlled, more disposed to reticence, less expansive than the average Italian. He is imperious and detached. . . . He has a solid, crag-like passivity when listening, and even when speaking, that is particularly imposing in a land where all are volatile and throbbing. He gives the impression that...
...prove manipulation, even if it exists, is often a tough task. So instead of cracking down with a ponderous investigation that might have sent the whole market into a decline, the SEC office in Manhattan chose a smarter method of warning against strong-arm tactics. It issued a denial of anything more than a routine interest in the Chrysler rise. But by mentioning by name,, and only mentioning, the firm with which most Chrysler market moves are associated, SEC made its point perfectly, thus...