Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speyer's personal triumph seemed complete, but on the New York coffee exchange last week many a broker doubted that the loan would go through, "understood" that the Brazilian coffee situation is in such bad shape that J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London were beginning to wonder whether the coffee sword can be stayed, whether a coffee crisis and price slump are not inevitable...
...Reichstag lobbies it was said that Dr. Hugenberg and the Big Business wing of his party had been forced to reverse overnight by the agrarian wing, made up of farmers and landed proprietors fanatically loyal to HINDENBURG. The victory of "Iron Cross" Brüning was thus purely a triumph for the President of the Republic...
...economic abstraction has become a matter of life and death to four million Russians. Ever since the Soviet triumph of State over Church, cartoon and rhetoric have obscured the fact that the fundamental issue revolves on the extermination of a class. The emphasis on material possessions as the criterion of equality or inequality has led Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this...
...cast, Wilfrid Walter undoubtedly received the most favorable attention last night: justly, for his Benedick was a triumph, a superb concoction of nonchalance...
...find that even the French, recognized specialists along those lines, realize that another well-populated nation has learned how to make love. This transportation and transplanting of the gentler arts of living to blossom like a rose even in the desert lands around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when the culture-minded will see America last as well as first and hesitate to venture into barbarous and depleted Europe. Thanks are due to M. Morand who finally has made the startling discovery that...