Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simply on the basis of his achievements in international affairs, Cordell Hull has become, of all things, very nearly an idol of the very men who know how difficult his task has been-the two living former Secretaries of State. Henry L. Stimson (Hoover) believes Hull is one of the greatest of all Secretaries; dashes off letters to the New York Times every time Mr. Hull is criticized. Charles Evans Hughes (Harding & Coolidge) is known to believe implicitly in both Hull's ideals and capacities; even John Bassett Moore (many times Assistant Secretary of State and author...
...Edward Bruce, then as now head of the U. S. Government's Section of Fine Arts, gave his friend and former teacher another tough task: the painting of 20 huge murals for the library of the new Department of Justice Building in Washington. Artist Sterne has been working on them ever since. On display last week in Manhattan's Fine Arts Gallery went the fruit of his four and a half years' toil...
...ancient saying that only he can die peacefully who has sons and daughters must be translated into fact during this war by the SS. Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside of wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become-not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...