Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to be their President during the next four years, and history will record that the voters of America made a wise choice. Mr. Dewey started off with fine prospects but proceeded to talk himself out of any chance of winning. Mr. Roosevelt's success in winning elections is no mystery. He just sits back and lets the Republican candidate defeat himself...
...Fighter. In many ways, Cordell Hull's place was unique. Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning...
Future historians will fill yards of bookshelves dividing the credit for the invasion success among the Allied generals, admirals and statesmen, and the discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...
...Strasbourg represented more than a fitting French triumph and the riddance of the enemy from all but the last bits of France. By this week the southernmost sector of the western front held the promise of the first success in the Allies' surging campaign to break up the enemy's weaker forces and destroy them piecemeal...
...industry's success is due to its having avoided direct competition with the Eastern makers of fancy women's clothes. Instead it concentrated on bold, original designs in women's casual clothes (trademark: "Made in California...