Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declaration which forms part of the Final Act of the Lausanne Conference the signatory powers express how the task there accomplished will be followed by fresh achievements. They affirm further that success will be more readily won if the nations will rally to a new effort in the cause of peace, which can only be complete if it is applied in both the economic and political spheres. In the same document the signatory powers declare their intention to make every effort to resolve the problems which exist at the present moment or may arise subsequently in the spirit which...
...immediate consequence of the new pact will be that Britain cannot, as in 1923, undertake to make payments to the United States for settlement of debts without previously consulting the French Government. The certainty of a concerted attitude is henceforth an accomplished fact which will facilitate success in negotiations with Washington...
...baldly the two "best customers" have been growing steadily worse. Result: a degree of Canadian irritation at the U. S. (shared by other Dominions) which is favorable to success for the Imperial Economic Conference...
...large as New Zealand," said New Zealand's Coates. "and let us hope her heart is proportionately generous." His Majesty's Lieu-enant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, plump, guttural J. W. Fordham Johnson, sped the delegates to their train for Ottawa. Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results...
...Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work...