Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quality and quantity of work done, under manifold difficulties, been even more surprising. Yet the departmental budget has advanced in no like proportion, has, in fact, remained almost stationary. Intimately connected with many previously noted criticisms is the Department's unhappy position of financial rigidity. It is no simple task, for example, to attract brilliant assistants with a mere pittance. Neither is it easy to keep the tutorial system up to par at the same time that new lecture courses are being steadily added to the curricula, for the lecture system ranks first in importance at Harvard and there...
...reasons for the petition may be found in the somewhat peculiar situation of Eastern lines generally. Their greatest carrying burden is over expensive short hauls, a major proportion of their charges are extremely high. Since the task of the I. C. C. is one of reconstruction, rather than destruction ,the Commission would adopt a sensible course if they listened to the pleas of the most interested parties, and adopt the compromise as a test measure for a limited period of time. In matters of such importance to the railroads and to the public, the Commission should make haste slowly...
...valuable part of the campaign strategy. By directing public attention to the gyrations of "the Magician" and his band of "white rabbits", Mr. Hoover puts his finger on the issues on which the campaign will be fought. Though the Supreme court has relieved the Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which the New Deal can answer only by "the smoke screen of personalities" and the "squirt...
...effect of the Securities & Exchange Act upon Wall Street was a notable improvement in demand for margin clerks, that unsentimental class of brokerage house employes whose thankless task it is to keep tabs on customers' accounts. For the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board, which administers the credit end of Federal stockmarket control, Congress suggested a dual formula for fixing margin requirements which has been in effect since 1934. A broker could lend a customer the greater of either: 1) a flat percentage (now 45%) of a security's current market value; or 2) 100% of the lowest...
...with this cash as capital. Their corporation then borrowed $2,400,000 from none other than Southwestern Life, selling long-term bonds to the insurance company. With Southwestern having thus provided almost all the money to return control of itself to Texas, Lawyer Hamilton proceeded to the relatively simple task of buying stock...