Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike with great interest. I have a suggestion to end long, costly strikes for all time. Simply lock the union and management in a room and let them out only when they have come up with an agreement. This method is used to elect a Pope, and has great success...
Texans Three. One big reason for Robert Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them...
...stocky, effervescent Dr. (of Law) Manfred George, 66, Aufbau is an outstanding example of a paper that has bucked a 50-year-long decline in the U.S. foreign-language press.* This week, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Waldorf dinner, Aufbau can and does trace its success directly to the fact that in the desperate days of Nazi Germany, it was the voice of help and hope for thousands of Jewish refugees...
...Voice, Too. Soprano Moffo's success at the Met caps a career that developed almost by accident. The daughter of an Italian-descended shoemaker, Anna grew up in Wayne. Pa., made her debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing...
Five weeks ago, the University announced it was moving these vehicles to a proposed parking lot on Plympton St. Zagat said the success of this new experiment depended on the self-restraint of the scooter owners...