Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essentially, Tom Dewey plainly implied, that meant getting a Republican back in the White House. Whatever success U.S. foreign policy had had to date, he attributed to the bipartisan policy Candidate Dewey had "had the honor to inaugurate" in 1944 and to the actions of the Both Congress. Said he: "It may well eventuate that the election of a Republican Congress last year not only saved the domestic affairs of the United States, but it may well also save the peace of the world...
...Union to tackle his toughest assignment of the moment. As U.S. representative on the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Daniels was soon knee-deep in planning for the Pan American Conference to be held at Bogo ta in January. On the council's work largely depends the success or failure, at least from the U.S. standpoint, of the Bogota get-together...
...little more like the neighbors. Shipped to her from England were son Anthony, 5, and daughter Ann, 8; their arrival fulfilled one of the terms of mother's contract in Broadway's The Heiress. The term: the children would be brought over if the show was a success...
Kreutzberg's first big success-and his last haircut-came in 1925 when he danced a dramatic part in the ballet Don Morte, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Says Kreutzberg: "I wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears...
...lords ventured to pit them against the Americans . . . until he remembers how they defeated the Russians, Germans, English, French, Dutch and Australians. . . ." The Colonel was pleased by the bearing of U.S. occupation troops: "I feel that America . . . will not be defeated ... by our anti-American representatives at Lake Success...