Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...
...Prime Minister achieved a success even in the heart of Saskatchewan. Against strong CCF opposition, he won his own personal election in the remote riding of Prince Albert...
...after 22 years as radio's best and best-satisfied customer, P & G is radio's biggest buyer of time ($11,014,000 in 1944). Last week Broadcasting magazine recalled P & G's radio success story. It was a story that clo.sely paralleled the whole history of commercial radio...
...Chinese official reported last week that Soong, fresh from his success as leader of China's delegation to the San Francisco conference, may stop off at Moscow, on his way back to Chungking, for a talk with Marshal Joseph Stalin. One probable subject of conversation: Chungking's (and Russia's) relations with the Chinese Communists at Yenan. A lessening of China's internal struggle would please practically everybody. But it seemed unlikely that Premier Soong, any more than Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, would compromise on the basic issue which has shattered all efforts at agreement between...
...agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...