Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encourage and make easier and quicker the essential shift of farmers, or farmers' sons and daughters, into industry. No-one who has not mixed up his ideals with his ambitions, hypnotized himself into believing the best thing for the country coincides with the best thing for personal, political success, could advocate as a permanent policy the subsidy of farmers to induce them not to produce what the country needs...
...Sans Famille," the picture presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee, is any augury of the quality of coming attractions this season, it seems fairly certain that this year's series of productions has started on the read to success...
...merit of the offering lies perhaps more in the work of the two leading ladies than in the virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...
Three factors were responsible for his conviction. Oldster Carter told the Senator. One was his Savannah successor's jealousy of his social success. Another was the fact that he had favored construction of a canal through Panama, thus incurring the wrath of New York's onetime Senator Warner Miller, head of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. Lastly, said he, the late, great Republican Boss Mark Hanna had persuaded President McKinley that if he failed to approve Carter's conviction he would, in the coming election, lose Ohio and the Presidency to Admiral Dewey...
...quickly: "On Oct. 8 the unencumbered balances of the University amounted to $1,023,172.26. Why are they unwilling to transfer some of this surplus to necessary items of maintenance?" Warming up, he continued: "As far as the football season is concerned, we are all extremely interested in its success. We recognize the fact that football has become the supreme purpose of higher education. We have certainly done our part, because we have most of the football squad on the State payroll...