Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, N. C., subsequently sat for four years on the State bench. During the Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another, he did not set himself up as a rival of the potent and popular Professor Frankfurter...
...accept your resignation with very real regret. For nearly two years you have discharged your important duties with distinction and success. A survey of your record and that of your office, taking into account the business transacted, the multiplicity of matters intrusted to your care, and the results achieved, will challenge comparison with any like period of time in the history of your department...
Holdover Chief. Every year since he became Chief of Staff in 1930, General Douglas MacArthur had vainly pleaded for funds to build the military establishment up to what he considered minimum requirements. Just as success seemed about to come to him, his four-year tour of duty, fixed by law, ran out last November. By an unprecedented executive order, President Roosevelt continued General MacArthur in office indefinitely to help Secretary of War Dern press the Army's "modernization" plans before Congress...
...somewhat calf-eyed for just a moment too long at the pictures of her parents. However, in the only scene in which she is allowed to raise her delightful voice, a scene in which it is possible to imagine the most mature actresses losing control, she performs with such success that tingles race up and down the spine, and emotional people weep...
...vote of 13 to seven the Liberal Club voted last night to join in the anti-war strike which the National Student League will stage on April 12. Victor H. Kramer '35, president of the Club, expressed the belief that this meeting will be "a peaceful success...