Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was adopted in Chicago in 1932, and if it had remained true to the principles of Jefferson . . . I know where I'd be, I'd be at the National Democratic Committee headquarters, where I've been for so many years, ready to bat for a success, but I can't see how anybody can expect me to battle for or even defend a failure...
...sight of the Eton birch which made Queen Mary exclaim: "If I had known the boys were thrashed with this, I should never have let Henry [The Duke of Gloucester] go to Eton." Appointed in 1933, new Headmaster Elliott found Eton finances shakey, Eton boys unruly. With great success he put Eton on a paying basis, flogged a record number of culprits during his first term, has made Eton boys as good as they need be to grow up the Empire's masters...
...will largely determine whether it proves to be liberal or repressive, whether it promotes greater harmony than ever before by establishing an Indian Federation, or rekindles the flames of "Civil Disobedience" and attempted insurrection (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). With everything dependent on the Viceroy's personal success in winning Indians to ignore the malcontents who were urging them to boycott the first election under the new Constitution and make it unworkable, the Marquess of Linlithgow was not uttering a platitude but making a particularly crucial appeal when he keynoted with Scottish straightforwardness: "Trust me-I will trust...
...Agents of the Raj have had considerable success in frightening Indian public opinion with the notion that the rise of Hitler and generally of Dictatorship in Europe is a growing trend which makes the Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Hunt Diederich started first to be a painter, put in several years producing sentimental canvases in the Barbizon manner. Hunt Diederich achieved his first popular success with a 15-ft. bronze of two gamboling greyhounds. It won a mention at the Paris Autumn Salon, much notice in the press, was promptly bought by Robert de Rothschild...