Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publicity is so precious to Congressman Church that he will talk for half-an-hour to any reporter rash enough to telephone him. He also disseminates to his constituents a leaflet called This Week in Washington, by Ralph E. Church. Last week, encouraged by success, Representative Church climaxed his public career. On Thanksgiving Eve, when the Senate had already sensibly adjourned, Sam Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would...
Professor Graton admitted that he was somewhat doubtful at first as to the true value of his microscope, but after seeing the great success of his second, similar machine in the Canadian department of mines at Ottawa, he felt more confident...
Colleges cooperating in the plan, in addition to admitting without examination, have also agreed to relax the 15 unit requirement. No decision can be made on the success of this move until elaborate data is compiled over a period of several years...
...blend of unblushing sentiment and desiccating humor smacks strongly of Dickens at his best. Its success (and that success was so great the first night in Boston that it drew out some dozen curtain-calls) is due in large part to the masterly work of Frederick Leicester who, besides staging the play, plays the principal role. When there is so perfect a coincidence of character and actor, no criticism is called for. Peggy Simpson in the part of the youngest of the corrosive trio is impish and irreverent to perfection; Jane Sterling makes an excellent middle sister, a beautiful, exuberant...
...have the right to assess you any time they want. You're no better off than you were before. A union is all right. It keeps men together. If it weren't for union the workers would get shoved to the wall, but the trouble is once they taste success they get crooked. They're all the same...