Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single out all of the people responsible for the success of the Cleveland Institute is not possible in this space, but TIME, as cosponsor, would like to convey its thanks to the citizens of Cleveland and the members of its Council; to Cleveland's Mayor Thomas Burke and Ohio's ex-Governor Frank J. Lausche; to the National Broadcasting Company (for producing nine special programs on the forum and broadcasting them coast-to-coast); to Cleveland's local radio stations (for the 31 forum programs they sent out over their transmitters); to the U.S. State Department...
Last week one of A.V.C's top leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., admitted their success: "The Commies moved in, and from a flowering, inspiring group of young Americans, interested in the nation's welfare, we have become a tattered and torn group. We are now bewildered and confused by the lies and tactics thrown at us by people who would not admit they were Communists but who at every turn of the road hewed to the Daily Worker line." The A.V.C. was now stopped near the 80,000 mark in its drive for a million members, he said...
...after his speech, young Roosevelt realized that in publicizing the Communists' success, he had hurt his own group. He promised to stay in, help defeat the Reds and keep it loyal "to the democratic traditions of our America...
...Ribbing's pills, a five-months-old Swedish-American Line experiment, helped. But against seasickness of that momentum and mass, nothing is much of a success. Like similar pills concocted by the Canadian Navy and the U.S. Army during the war, they are compounded of drugs (scopolamine and a mild barbiturate) to quiet the nerves. Ribbing has a refinement: an injection of the same preparation for victims too far gone to swallow. But the drugs (which are dangerous and should be taken only by a doctor's prescription) are not much help after a victim gets his larynx...
...Moran has his eye on six more deep-sea tugs that the Maritime Commission has put on sale. If Operation Netherlands is a success, Ed Moran thinks he might buy them, have a fleet powerful enough to take on all comers...