Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commending TIME for its good work in putting out real news in the manner which must appeal to men of the military services, and with best wishes for its continued success, I am FRANK M. HENDRICKS...
...Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into...
...this material success so softened the socialist movement that by the time Dollfuss, using the Nazis as a bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus...
...interior?", ninety-three out of the one hundred and forty-seven answers were in the negative; of the fifty-four that replied in the affirmative, twenty-one declared that they were considered thus inferior only by certain individuals. Further evidence, relating to the lack of social distinction and the success of the system at other colleges may be seen in the reports submitted by them and reprinted in today's issue...
...answer to the question of whether the President's plan is a success or a failure, Mr. Bliven felt, was impossible because there is not one plan, but five or six, and they cannot be judged except separately. However, he enumerated several of the accomplishments that have been made since the President took office. First, the confidence in the banking system, which was completely lacking last March, has been restored. In addition, the decline of business has been halted, and wholesale prices have turned up for the first time (except momentarily) since the depression began. Between three and four million...