Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that all but $208,000,000 had been converted of the $1,005,000,000 called and due. The Treasury's $4,600,000,000 stock of cash on hand could easily handle the relatively small cash demand. Mr. Morgenthau was in fact so delighted at the success of his conversion that he had an appetite for more: after consulting with his experts and attending a Cabinet conference he hastily went back to the Treasury, called in newshawks, went through a ceremony...
Judge Lescouvé testified that he had drawn up two reports on Sacha Stavisky's strange success in dodging trial for fraud for eight years. In the second of these reports Judge Lescouvé directly charged Chief Prosecutor Georges Pressard of the Seine, lean-faced brother-in-law of onetime Premier Camille Chautemps, with negligence, a report that forced Pressard's removal from office...
...largest motor-builders in the world; in Wayne, Mich., his Stinson Aircraft Corp.. biggest U. S. builders of cabin airplanes; in Cleveland his Smith Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.; and in Auburn, Ind., the great automobile plant where Errett Lobban Cord ten years ago got a toehold on Success...
...most prominent. During his last years he experimented with impressionistic back grounds. These as well as his choice of subjects were a major influence in the great French group which immediately followed him and included Courbet, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet. As a portrait painter, Goya was a quick, fashionable success. The nobility crowded to his studio, recklessly tossed him com missions which he invariably accepted. At 40 he was making big money and spending most of it. He bought himself a two-wheeled carriage, a thoroughbred horse. On his first trip he fell, spraining his ankle. On a subsequent trip...
...great Bohemian art societies opened simultaneous rival shows last week. The Independents were organized in 1917 by John Sloan, one of the best of U. S. etchers, to emulate the no-jury shows which in art-conscious Paris used sometimes to approach the pinnacle of Paris success-a street riot. The Salons of America, an offshoot, was started four years later by disgruntled Independents. As anyone might have predicted, the fight this year centered upon the now hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both societies were invited to exhibit. Claiming that Rockefeller authorities were certain to exercise...