Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S correspondent wired: "Wallace has become a bitter, dour man with a developing persecution complex. He would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...
...ready to accept this idea of organization, but they find it difficult to execute because they have not always the necessary courage to accept sacrifices. Those who think of Western Union as a panacea are wrong, terribly wrong, so wrong they will never have the courage to succeed with this policy which is first based on sacrifices...
...much greater achievements in the musical field. Perhaps the outstanding example is Leonard Bernstein 39, who has become a figure of world renown both as a composer and as a conductor. Bernstein led the New York City Symphony for several years, and was one of those considered to succeed Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony. For his composing abilities, Bernstein recently said of himself, "I am the logical man to write the Great American Opera...
However, deviations from the Lindsey and Crouse satire are fortunately few, and though the "State of the Union" doesn't always succeed, it never quite sceedes. Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...
...third-party movement "will have no value, however, if it collapses in November," he added, "and it will only succeed in the end with a really solid base of organized labor...