Word: successful
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Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor and a prime mover in the Committee for Economic Development, drew an analogy between the Democratic success in 1932 and the GOP sweep on Tuesday. "Every party has its blind spots," he explained. "One of the things which contributed most to the rejection of Hoover in 1933 was that he couldn't visualize adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot...
...LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., November 5--The Steering Committee of the United Nations Assembly tonight approved a United States proposal to widen the permanent headquarters site question to include consideration of New York City end San Francisco...
...LAKE SUCCESS, New York, November 4--United Nations sources said tonight that Soviet Russia, which once vigorously opposed Geneva and anything connected with the old League and Natless as a home for the U.N., was ready to ask that the Assembly consider the Swiss city among possible headquarters sites...
...them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...
...biggest boons to Bundy was that the unionists made loafers go to work. (Once a group of women threatened to strike unless their shop steward was forced to work and produce his share of the profits.) Said one union official: "The plan is a great success and we urge everyone to work like hell...