Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your observation that Mr. Huxman was disappointed in his success is not inaccurate. He was naturally interested in the success of the campaign but the main reason was to justify the judgment of his friends and not to further his own personal ambitions. If ever there was an instance where the office sought the man, this...
...liked by South American diplomats because he years ago attacked the stupid imperialism of past U. S. foreign policy. Cordell Hull's second piece of good fortune was that when his chance came, it was at a moment when Franklin Roosevelt was eager to capitalize the Hull policies. Success may or may not crown his efforts but at last he has free rein, such as few U. S. statesmen ever have, to attempt the things that are his sole belief...
...most finished technique. You would hardly know it was a technique, but for the occasional revealing split second. Opinions may differ as to the secondary qualities required in a President of the United States, but undoubtedly the first is Poissonality. Such Poissonality, swollen by its own success, has its dangers. Let us hope Roosevelt will not fall for it himself...
...fictional are the practices loan office operators are warned against in the article entitled "Unending Vigilance-the Price of Pawnbrokers' Success." Biggest current menace, according to this article, is the "teeth substitution gag," by which swindlers trick unwary pawnbrokers into accepting brass-coated false teeth for gold...
...modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record of his visit, with funds that the success of British Agent provided, to the Eastern Islands where he had spent three years as a young...