Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate of vindictive efforts in Congressional Committee to quash the whole of Labor: "It's obvious that the liberal Republicans and the Democrats are joining to prevent antiunion measures. Of course there will be legislation, but we are trying to make it reasonable and rational. We'll succeed in Committee. On the floor I don't know...
...matter how much cramming Secretary Marshall may have done in preparation for the Moscow Conference, he won't succeed in moving the world any nearer permanent peace until he and the others who formulate our foreign policy face the unpleasant truth that the Soviet Union doesn't want a peaceful, prosperous world outside its own borders and those of its satellites...
Quebecker Coté, onetime political reporter (Montreal's La Patrie and Le Canada), ticked off the men he thought most likely to succeed: 1) Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, 48, who is the "heir presumptive"; 2) Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, 47, "whose affability makes him the most popular of ministers"; 3) Health Minister Paul Martin, 43, "whose . . . eloquence and ambition make him a candidate"; 4) Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, 63, "a first-class organizer"; 5) External Affairs Under Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 49, who "leads all the dark horses by manylengths...
...Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism, if only because of its glittering promises...
...Montreal police strike, said Sullivan, was "secretly financed by the Communist Party, [which] furnished $9,000." In the current Cartier by-election campaign in Montreal (to select a Member of Parliament to succeed Communist and traitor Fred Rose), "all available forces of the C.S.U. in Montreal are being thrown" behind the Communist candidate...