Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green, Labor's diplomat, a pillar of Baptist conservatism, addressed the convention, Labor's hackles were indeed rising. In a preliminary meeting the Voice of Labor had assumed a surprisingly threatening tone: "Some of us have been wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . We will be in favor of having the United States Government take it away through taxation and distribute it to the masses...
...Prosecution was headed by softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson. Field marshal of the Government's forces seeking to break up gang rule by the left-handed method of jailing gangsters for tax evasion, his success would be measured by his ability to dispose of Capone. Frankly disappointed when the "deal" fell through, he was now excited, eager, mysterious. So far he had kept secret the list of his "surprise" witnesses...
Reception. The plan's success depended on country-wide acceptance; small outlying banks had to be brought in as well as the huge city institutions. With this in mind the hoorahs of Wall Street were carefully hushed so that small-towners could be heard giving thanks, cheering...
...German in New York by the Max Reinhardt players but has never been given in English. "Wozzeck", another production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under Max Reinhardt. And finally there is a play by the German author Stefan Zweig "Jeremiah...
...story is of an iron-willed woman who has reached the pinnacle of commercial success, but who in doing so has, to outward appearances, allowed the milk of human kindness to curdle. Her son she considers a weakling, and she is on the verge of making her daughter an automaton, trained to carry on the Green tradition of close-fisted, hard-hearted dealings. It happens that the son redeems himself, and the young girl's dormant emotions are awkened by the agency of Mr. James Hall, who, incidentally, turned in a rather flabby performance...