Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dissension. But the big nation delegates could not succeed in shushing down small or poor nations on all questions (each participating Government has an enual vote). When the U.S. and Britain proposed that UNRRA relief be given free to postwar Germany if she was unable to pay, the small nations rose in storm. With a violent and tumultuous "no" they voted down the proposal. Said they: Germany must pay for all the relief it gets...
What began as a sincere inquiry into why the people of Boston do not love their neighbors ended with their getting a new Police Commissioner. Last Friday the Governor appointed 65-year-old Colonel Thomas F. Sullivan, a South Boston Irish Democrat, to succeed Timilty. Commissioner Sullivan's first statement on Boston antiSemitism: "Kid stuff. . . ." His first official act: to suspend six police officials indicted for conspiracy with gambling operators...
...last week, for a few breathless hours, it seemed that Leon Henderson might return to the national scene. From Washington and Atlantic City came reports that New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison might appoint Leon to succeed New Jersey's late Senator W. Warren Barbour. Said Leon Henderson, practically wrapping the toga about his bulky frame: "I was urged to run in 1942 and always have understood that I would be highly satisfactory to Governor Edison, to labor, and to other groups, including Mayor Hague...
...world in which, as Secretary Hull hopefully declared to Congress last week (see p. 21), "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power." The hopes of millions for such a world may be shattered unless these three great personal leaders succeed in establishing among themselves a solid bond of confidence in each other's good faith and good will...
...Secretary, Ponsonby had two chief functions: to present the Queen's opinions to the Government; to present the Government's opinions to the Queen. To succeed in both functions at once was almost impossible, but Sir Henry Ponsonby made a career of tact. The Queen had a virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance...