Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent resurgence of labor no new union has had more spectacular success than the United Automobile Workers of America, no labor leader of the past year has achieved more fame than the Auto Workers' brisk and boyish president, Homer Martin. Eight months ago, armed with contracts from General Motors and Chrysler, a membership of 375,000, an overflowing treasury and the enthusiasm of youth, the U. A. W. prepared to shift into high and charge the unconquered Ford fortress. Last week the sound of grinding gears could still be heard...
...penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost briefly towns and villages along their main rail lines of supply & conquest. Impudent, chuckling, the Chinese Communist Yu Cheng-tsao cracked that his bands are hunting Japanese in a "Communist State" just formed by "7,000,000 Chinese farmers" in Hopeh...
Justice Brandeis, who still gives advice now and then to shaggy, crusading Deputy Commissioner Judd Dewey, would list the following reasons for the notable success of his idea: 1) Primary tenet of the Brandeis economic faith is that efficiency decreases with size. Savings banks are small, decentralized. And of course their life insurance departments are controlled by the same State reserve laws that control all insurance companies. 2 ) Terms in most cases are more beneficial to the policyholders. Most old-line policies cannot be turned in for cash till after the third year and then there is a surrender charge...
...London in 1907, at the age of 33, William Somerset Maugham became a success. Four of his plays were produced, and three of them ran for a year. He has remained successful ever since. "In my twenties," he says, "the critics said I was brutal, in my thirties they said I was flippant, in my forties they said I was cynical, in my fifties they said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade...
...months now, Mr. Richard Tracy, stellar sleuth of the Nation's G-Men, has been courageously defending America's shores against the onslaughts of COMMUNISTS who are trying to burden this DEMOCRACY with coolie labor. Mr. Tracy might have some chance of success, were it not for the UNAMERICAN forces which are BORING FROM WITHIN...