Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experts in London estimated that Senator Pittman would have to persuade the U. S. Congress to buy an additional $12,000,000 worth of silver for treasury purposes per year in order to make the scheme work.* His "personal triumph" in rescuing something from the silver stalemate spurred the "Big Four" wheat nations into efforts to conclude a face-saving "agreement in principle" or, failing that, to set up in London a Permanent Wheat Advisory Council...
...Nazi state, the Chancellor argued, is protecting German Protestants against Jews and Bolsheviks. "Every political evolution affects churches," he cried. "Only insane people believe that the triumph of Communism in German)' would have left the Catholic or the Protestant churches untouched! . . . I am not interested in questions of faith, dogma or teaching. . . . Superseding these are problems which force the Leader of the state to take a hand...
...Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...
...proper times and with the proper attitude to become the victims of the egotism of Mr. Perkins, and the suavity of his mistress and secretary, Miss Baxter. An awkward situation develops and is saved through the brilliance of Miss Baxter; and it is delivious to observe the triumph of evil pleasantry over calm, resolution, because the calm resolution gives way to consternation, and the evil pleasantry retains its philosophic, if not obvious, calm...
...AMERICAN movement six months ago, the City of New York became his first important disciple. The city government agreed to specify domestic steel in all its building contracts. Going a step farther, it forbade the use of imported cement in municipal construction. The Hearst Press trumpeted its triumph...