Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vantage, drove Japanese troops back at several points, at one time actually forced a fleet of eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost 500 men to the enemy's 1,000 on the first day of the Big Push...
...Confucianism has practically disappeared from China, but there are many conservative Chinese who resented the change. In 1932 the Japanese found it a shrewd move to restore Confucian worship when they established the new state of Manchukuo where the population is 95% Chinese. Last week they hoped for similar success in Peiping...
...main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
...River. This, and the fact that often on Manhattan's East Side only a course of masonry separates the triplex apartments of the rich from the cold-water flats of the poor, were about all Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) needed to write one of the most successful plays of the 1935 Broadway season. A large measure of its success was due to Norman Bel Geddes' superrealistic set and to the children Messrs. Geddes & Kingsley cast as the gang which contributed most of the noise and all the excitement to the show...
...further spade work. Moreover, the resolution condemned A. F. of L.'s suspension of C. I. O. unions as "undemocratic action," put the Teachers' Federation on record as refusing to pay special antiC. I. O. assessments levied by A. F. of L., commended "the great success" of C. I. O. in organizing mass production industries. Another sign of which way the wind was blowing was the re-election of C. I. O.-minded President Davis by a comfortable margin over a Chicago opponent named Charles B. Stillman...