Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war. We must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centres...
...Saturday, the Nation's first Democrat placed the issue of dictatorship before Congress and the American people. In his Inaugural Address, President Roosevelt said, "It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But in the event that the Congress shall fail" in the speedy adoption of measures to meet the national emergency, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would...
...been made more difficult. Problems that were easy have become hard. More than ever is it true that trained men are needed to meet the issues that arise in such acute form because of conditions. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Democrats will not make their own task more difficult by replacing the trained men in the field by ignorant political appointees. If there was ever a time when mere political work, mere contributions to the campaign fund should not unduly influence appointments, it is today. People used to laugh at Bryan's appointments of "deserving Democrats." Such...
...annual smoker will take place this year on Wednesday, March 29, at 8.15 o'clock in the main dining hall of the Union. The committee will take over the task of arranging for entertainment, refreshments, and souvenirs for the traditional social affair. The only plans released to date include speeches by the Freshman officers, and the award of silver trophics by the Class President to the winners of the Pingpong, Billiard and Pool Tournaments now being held at the Union...
...particularly fitting that this School, as it approaches the end of a quarter century of study of business and of business education, should find problems of this general nature occupying much of its attention, for if rapid progress is to be made, much of the task must be done by our universities. Our first effort as a school was to learn about business as it exists both statically and dynamically. The larger task ahead is the training of men for the kind of administrative responsibility which I have just outlined--responsibility which recognizes business not alone as an aggregation...