Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable fact of Recovery, was proceeding with a "non-political" campaign which, as Lacy Haynes' and Roy Roberts' Kansas City Star conceded of his Drought trip, was "politically a huge success...
...Democratic platform of 1932,"Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who as Mrs. Charles H. Sabin worked for Roosevelt and Repeal in 1932, announced in New York that she will campaign this year for Governor Landon. Said she: "He will encourage thrift and self-reliance and will not sneer at success...
...speaking thus last week at Tuskegee, Ala., Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace echoed the question which has sorely troubled the cotton-growing South ever since the equivocal demonstration of the Rust mechanical cotton picker fortnight ago: If the Rust machine is eventually a success, what will human cotton pickers do for work? Hardly were the words out of the Secretary's mouth when the antipodal question vexed cotton planters in the Mississippi Valley and all over the Southeast: What was this year's cotton crop going to do for human pickers? Though wages were the highest since...
...Dealers plunged heart and soul into spending the $175,000 to make the Conference a success. For six months quantities of press releases were poured out. Three auditoriums, in the Department of Labor, in the Department of Commerce and in the National Museum were equipped with "translators" whereby foreign delegates who did not understand English could, by picking up earphones, hear translations in French, German or Spanish. And finally for the grand banquet Washington's Union Station was hired and its vast waiting room-the only available place in the capital large enough to seat 3,000 guests-converted...
...even the great New Deal power controversy failed to make the conference sparkle like a success. Delegates dozed over technical papers. Foreigners spent a great deal of time sightseeing, golfing, attending parties at embassies and legations. Numbers of them did not even bother to appear while their own papers were being discussed. At some sessions no more than 50 auditors turned up. When the next World Power Conference was allotted to Japan in 1942, cynics added "if another is ever held...