Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced out of New York City Hall by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, has been working with might & main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
...Schacht, then President of the Reichsbank and famed for his success in stabilizing the German mark in 1924 at its present gold value, predicted catastrophe if U. S. and other foreign loans continued to pour into Germany, did what he could (not much) to stem the flood...
...sporting-goods manufacturer. Audiences, he said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed up his violin, went to Russia, made his name there. But throughout their careers Spalding and Gabrilowitsch have had one rare quality in common: no amount of success has spoiled their selfless, unaffected devotion to music...
...scenes of her success in New York, shows in the latter part of the picture, provide more opportunities for the exercise of her crooning ability, and less for the exhibition of her bulk. One shot that should be preserved for posterity is the view of our behemoth hotcha mamma writhing in the contortions of a tap-dance...
...purpose of the present exhibition is to create an interest in undergraduate art, or to foster an interest already existent, the endeavor will meet with little success. Fine as the individual painting and drawing may be, the value of the exhibition to the student is diminished by the fact that a large majority of the works shown are the product of one or two brushes. To any visitor who looks at each new marking card with the hope of finding a familiar name, there is a decided monotony in the exhibition. Presumably not too serious an effort was made...