Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation's profits, the Social Security Act, over the probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking up the gage of combat...
Perhaps the Miscellany column is a fill-in job, shelved during a rush week, and then again, perhaps it is quite a task to find suitable material. Therefore, while kicking I kick in what seems to me to be a kosher item for Miscellany's editor ... and suggest that if he will peruse such weeklies as The Moore County News he will often encounter other unique bits that he will find helpful in reporting All Things...
...dramatization of "It Can't Happen Here" is not a finished production, but it retains enough of the novel's emotional ferocity to be well worth seeing. There can be no question that the adaption of the novel to a dramatic vehicle constituted a difficult task and that it was not completely successful. Further, it is noticeable that production difficulties are less easily overcome by a federal theatre group than by a private organization...
Today, the choice is clear-cut. In these times of uncertainty America cannot afford to have a President who is temperamentally unsuited to the task of keeping the nation out of war. Roosevelt is often praised because he is especially sensitive to public opinion. Yet the past few years have shown that public opinion is the most variable of elements, and a weathervane for President is the surest guarantee of disaster. It has been said that Roosevelt's policy is laudable. It should be examined. He partially sponsored, and then wrecked, the London Economic Conference. The administration's silver policy...
...between accounts of foreign affairs and domestic scandals, quotes copiously from Fish's factual, objective diary. Born in 1808, the son of a distinguished Revolutionary officer, Fish's first 60 years were relatively uneventful. In the next eight he packed a lifetime of effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims...