Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GRAHAM (R.B. Cunninghame) Success...
...chances for replacing Tammany control with decent government are greater than they have been for many years and may be for many years to come. The opportunity has arrived for the college man, with ideals of good government, to associate himself with a municipal reform which has prospects of success. Whether the reform will come from outside Tammany, with a fusion ticket, possibly headed by Mayor McKee, or from within the organization and possibly headed by Al Smith, it is still too early to say, but it is certain that a reform of some sort will be attempted...
There, in a few short paragraphs, are explained the fundamentals which have lurked behind the superficial simplicity of the question. Men who have the success of the House Plan at heart, who feel a responsibility for the development of "corporate personalities" in the Houses must have experienced two successive reactions to the proposal: first, that it was essentially a contradiction of their plans; and secondly, after time had allayed the original fears, that the influence of inter-House dining unless strictly circumscribed, would, by its very nature, be subversive to House spirit...
...monetary conference seemed to offer a prospect of a return to some more endurable kind of normalcy. Beginning with the demand of the United States that war debts and particular tariff policies be barred from the agenda, that prospect has slowly dwindled, until the conference and its chances of success are now clouded in uncertainty...
...stress on the formation of sound individual opinion rather than on detailed knowledge of any sort. It would be of most service to those taking it in hope of arriving at a critical formulation of their own, if its closest inquiry were into contemporary theories and problems. The success of this course naturally demands a teacher of very special talent, sensitive to the subtlest implications of the works studied, widely learned, open-minded and preferably young...