Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner. These personal attributes apparently counted for more with the average citizen than did the concrete record of the President's achievements during 1934. By last week that record was still an unfinished story, with the outcome of many of his executive undertakings still dangling between success and failure. He had kept busy; he had put on a good show; he had exuded cheer and optimism; but he had decisively won few major battles in the past twelve months...
Every bit as sound in its child psychology as the less wholesome Children's Hour (TIME, Dec. 3). Birthday boasts a stageful of convincing actors. As Irene. Antoinette Cellier repeats her London success, is a properly moody adolescent. Producers Harmon & Ullman have provided a fairly credible London scene which will be completely so when they tear the NRA label out of Baba's school coat...
...better moments. Fools Rush In fell back on the satire its predecessor used with such success. There was a political speech by a stripling named O. Z. Whitehead, who was nominating somebody for something in the Tenth Assembly District. Barbara Hutton Mdivani. Doris Duke and Gloria Baker came in for some stern kidding in a ribald song. Imogene Coca made a sprightly and naughty Salvation Army lassie. Meeting at a Girl Scout affair, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt had some acid things to say to each other...
...report which Dean Hanford made to the President he enthusiastically backed up the latter's plan of awarding large scholarships to deserving Freshmen. It is policy that has long been advocated and the support it is being given in all quarters assures its success...
Recent political trends in Europe are went to give rise to an optimism that an appreciation of the realities of the situation will not justify. It should be borne in mind, that despite the success of the League in at least contributing towards a moderately peaceful Saar plebiscite, and in the peaceful settlement of the threatened war between Jugoslavia and Hungary--despite these encouraging signs, it would be unwise to forget that the thorniest problems remain unsolved...