Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week India's prohibition movement made its biggest advance. India's second largest city, Bombay, will be bone dry next August-as far as Indians are concerned. Purred Mahatma Gandhi over his latest success: "If India carries out prohibition, it may well hasten the return of prohibition in the United States...
...third concert the audience caught fire. Women crowded to the stage to shower him with bouquets. The box office grossed $3,000. When it was over, Paderewski found himself the lion of Manhattan. His success was repeated in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia. His first U. S. tour netted...
...chance to make that dream come true. For the duration of the War he toured England and the U. S., playing, speaking at dinners, lobbying with politicians, devoting all the proceeds of his concerts to Polish relief. At this tea-table politics he was a great success. In 1917, with the help of his close friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President Wilson to include an independent Poland in his proposals for European peace. When, at the end of the War, the Allies asked Paderewski to organize a stable Polish government, the pianist took up politics in earnest...
...Booper. Today, Paderewski has long since passed the peak of one of the most spectacular careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies...
...believe in the fundamental rights of man, in free and open discussion. You come in contact with opposing organizations; you should seek to exceed them in being right. If I understood your purpose and your method, I devoutly hope for your success...