Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany last week, one denazification project looked like a success. Officials had nothing to do with it. It was the inspiration of G.I.s themselves. To a military conference in the U.S. Army's Bremen area, Sergeant Patrick J. Moriarty, a big, blue-eyed, redheaded Irishman from Shakopee, Minn., described...
...Plan. Last week TIME'S Washington Bureau asked the office of Assistant Secretary of State Major General John H. Hilldring, the official primarily responsible for the success of the American occupation, whether the U.S. had worked out with the British a specific plan for revitalization of the Ruhr. How many tons of coal had the U.S. targeted for the next twelve months in the Ruhr? How many tons of steel? How many factories, repaired, restored and reconverted from armament to useful production? What were the U.S. and Britain planning to contribute to get the program going? What exports...
Canada Lee, Negro pugilist-turned-actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...
...John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and Charles Bulfinch, architect of the Capitol. Its most famed minister: Edward Everett Hale. If the size of the congregation is a gauge, Davies has proved a powerful successor; almost overnight he brought about its present overflow. His explanation of his success...
...choosing this theme Author Jackson has ruled out the chance of any such popular success as he had with his first novel. It is not a theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...