Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concrete measure of Republicans' success was that they swept New England solidly. Very nearly capturing the New York Governorship, they swept New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon. They nearly won in Indiana, won all high State offices but the Governorship in Nebraska, gained the Governorship and barely missed another Senator in Iowa. All those victories were against Democrats. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, ruled by Farmer-Labor and Progressives who were more or less allies of the New Deal, they won two more Governorships, one Senatorship...
Whether due to division between the Farley group and the Janizariat, or to laziness after too much past success, the Democratic vote-getting machine which had worked brilliantly for eight years, conspicuously fell down...
...Dada intellectuals known best in Manhattan were Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...
Nobody was surprised that markets should shoot off some fireworks after the first notable Republican success in eight years. But capitalistic exuberance was not solely responsible. Last week's market rise began before the voting, was stimulated by good business news on every side. Samples...
...sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Laughlin says that he never read a book until he was 16. Then, at Choate, he studied under the erudite poet and translator Dudley Fitts, read Pound and Eliot before he read Wordsworth, began to write with such success that he won an Atlantic Monthly prize...