Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor and bedraggled little animal that was led around Soldiers Field last fall between the halves of the football game. Handsome Dan was a lovable pet, but his success as a mascot was open to grave question. His enthusiasm for his masters seemed ever dilatory, and although he watched the Blues thrive in the field of winter sports, even this could hardly regain the prestige he had lost in the fall...
...plays, THE SHINING HOUR by Keith Winter, the dramatic success which noel Coward is sponsoring on Broadway, and MASTER OF THE REVELS by Don Marquis, will be published on March 21st. Mr. Winter is the young novelist whose RATS OF NORWAY won high praise both in England and America...
...wave which has overrun the state, Governor Ely has recommended that all the police forces be coordinated into a single body. This coordination, it is hoped, will result in a more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces which must be eliminated before this...
...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...
...supported by the rest of the European powers. France in particular has been so completely alienated that Mussolini no longer need have any fears of a Franco-German rapprochement. He is thus able to proceed with his plans and France, far from making difficulties, tries instead to assure their success by persuading her Balkan allies not to raise any objections. There is thus presented the strange and mystifying spectacle of one alliance system actually helping the formation of another and rival system...