Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cousin Jorge is a grandson of sea-roving Paul Delano, the swashbuckling Chilean patriot who helped to break Spain's power on South America's West Coast. Last week Jorge Delano emerged from a garage near Santiago's noisy Alameda de las Delicias to announce a triumph of which all Delanos may well be proud. He had just shot 30,000 feet of sound cinema film, the first 100% Chilean talkie...
...only Blue Eagle goods. His campaign was sufficiently effective for the Harriman mill to claim it could not work without a Blue Eagle, had, in fact, already lost an order for 30,000 doz. pairs of stockings placed by the State of Pennsylvania. NRA did not rejoice over its triumph. The mill with its 650 workers is practically the only industry at Harriman, Tenn. When, early this week, officials closed the mill, it looked as though the town would close too and Government relief would replace private industry...
...publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph over weaker minds. While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army and made it his own by insuring regular pay for the first time in living Persian memory. To do this he had to detach a section of the Ministry of Finance and incorporate it into the Ministry...
Back of Baruch's success was his own shrewd economic judgment, of which the ultimate triumph was foreseeing the debacle of 1929. He got out in advance-liquidated a large part of his investments. Later, before Franklin Roosevelt was elected President, Baruch put some of his millions into gold. Subsequently that investment became unpatriotic and he had to change it but at the time it showed sound foresight. Other speculators at one time or another may have made bigger fortunes, but in his way Baruch had had few peers. More than most men, he had earned his chance...
...sprinkling of Nazi swastikas had been put up among the riot of Italian flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than...