Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner to take a chance on $5,000 by running for Republican Michigan's Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He did it, explained the dynamic, redheaded, onetime Mayor of Detroit in his letter of resignation to President Roosevelt, because he believed that ''continuance of your leadership and the success of the Democratic Party in the coming State and national elections are of the first importance to the people of Michigan and the country at large...
...months. Danzig officials said they would "ignore"' High Commissioner Lester, who was rumored about to resign. A correspondent who called on Nose-Thumber Greiser was told: "You should have seen the faces of the delegates to the League Council. Ja, you just should have seen their faces! . . . Our success in Geneva is having profound effect. We would welcome the appointment of a German as High Commissioner, since a German would understand the situation in Danzig-or even an American would be all right...
Deeply religious, Lawrence Saint attributes his artistic success to trust in the Lord, has for 15 years faithfully discharged his duties as elder at the Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, rests after Sunday service, sleeps with black goggles to shield his candid blue eyes, which are abnormally sensitive to light. For recreation, he interprets handwriting and plays such hymns as Oh Happy Day that Fixed My Choice and I Was a Wandering Sheep on his mouth organ...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks did not have to be told that its author was pernickety. But when they heard that he was being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember...
...self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...