Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, bald, persuasive Speaker Sam Rayburn went down to the floor, solemnly read a letter from President Truman: "I regard the pending measure . . . as of the first order of importance for the success of my administration." With the party whip thus cracked. Democrats held firm, passed the bill 239 to 153, sent it to a none-too-friendly Senate where hearings, debate and outcry would start this week...
Under the Trees. Each obstacle underlined the necessity of success. One afternoon the delegates left their complexities on the tables, went over to the Muir Woods National Monument to dedicate a plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. As a shaft of sunlight struck through the interlaced redwood branches, Brazil's Leāo Velloso said hopefully that the Conference was building "on indestructible foundations, a civilization in which wars will be placed outside...
Formula for Fibber. Much credit for the success of their propagandizing belongs to Don Quinn, the man who writes the show (NBC, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.). He was the first radio scripter to see profit in building an entire comedy show around one of the subjects which OWI allots to radio each month. (Most programs either confine themselves to a sly line or two, or else beat the listeners' ears back with earnest messages...
Both the Boston Pops and the Harvard Glee Club appear to achieve success through habit. What would seem startling to most American communities, the business of listening to music flippantly rather than in the solemnity of Art or of conspicuous leisure, is now an accepted part of Boston-in-the-spring. And the Harvard Glee Club has now reached practical perfection in the repertoire developed since last fall...
According to the program notes, the Boston Pops began back in 1885 and "no other orchestra this side of the Atlantic, has made a success of serving the larger part of the audience at tables while the music is in progress." The Pops leans heavily on atmosphere; the flavor of the German beer hall and the English garden party...