Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year ago last April President Hoover after a visit there called the Virgin Islands "an effective poorhouse." Last week Virgin Islands Democrats cabled the President-elect: "Hoover's poorhouse unanimously wishes your success...
...rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...
...outcome of the battle appeared to hinge largely on the success of the Harriman-Lehman group in rounding up proxies from the many substantial stockholders known to them. Banker Harriman himself had begun to withdraw from the aviation scene. Last month he resigned as Avco board chairman, was succeeded by his friend Banker Lehman (TIME, Oct. 31). About the same time Harold Ellstner Talbott Jr. resigned the North American Aviation chairmanship. His place was filled by George Newell Armsby, chairman of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. which sponsored North American. Guessers everywhere tried to connect the two resignations with the presence...
Though the new publication will fill a definite need, its success is not a thing assured. It has chosen a most unfortunate time to venture into a world where finance are, in the last analysis, the indicator of success and failure. If has chosen a time when the tendency is for students to be more and more preoccupied by their studies, and ever less interested in extra-curricular activities. Under intelligent and responsible direction which fully realizes the magnitude of the task which it is undertaking, there is, however, a good chance that the magazine will make itself a lasting...
...advent of the forward pass, the success of a team depended entirely upon brute force. The elimination of the very dangerous plays has made the game safer for the participant and more exciting and spectacular for the onlookers. This new are of the sport has resulted in its gaining the greatest popularity to come to any one sporting event...