Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold for a nine-week tryout. CBS gave the show the Monday night (8:309 p.m., E.D.S.T.) hot spot held in season by Joan Davis. Variety tabbed Senator "a show with tremendous promise." It looked as if Luckman had bought himself one of the summer replacements most likely to succeed...
Bidault's opening speech was cautiously optimistic. Said he: "We have all suffered in trying to banish [war]. Gentlemen, it is now time to begin to succeed...
Last week, rural Georgia was comfortable again. After nearly four years of wearing the laundered government of chubby Governor Ellis Arnall (who cannot succeed himself under state law), she had gone back to his skinny, wild-eyed predecessor, 61-year-old ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge's once discarded political union suit still smelled of demagoguery, Klan support and white supremacy. But it felt easy in the seat...
...pursue him further and he continued on to his home at 29 Reservoir Street. He was unable in the darkness to determine the appearance of the number of his assailants. The apparent purpose of the attack was robbery, but the men did not succeed in getting at Magoun's wallet...
...majority increased with every fresh report. A few thousand men, 12,000 by four in the afternoon, 18,000 by nightfall. Plainly, the people of Georgia wanted James Carmichael as their next governor, to replace Ellis Arnall who by law could not succeed himself. One hundred thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers...