Word: prosper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm of Goldwater & Flynn, which prudently takes no Federal or State business, has prospered throughout thick years & thin, and unquestionably will continue to prosper. For all of the 1,349,711 citizens of The Bronx (a population larger than that of any of 15 States; greater than that of the South's three largest cities put together-Houston, New Orleans. Louisville) know Ed Flynn is a solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which...
These sidelights are the best of United We Stand. The narration (Lowell Thomas) is patronizing, the script (Prosper Buranelli) undistinguished. Commentary, photography and score get in each other's way. Net result is a warning to future producers that it takes more to make historical documentaries than an animated file of old rotogravure sections...
After the war he played both sides of a Socialist split, formed his own group in Aubervilliers, married the simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...
...Catholics do not mean to sit still while this happens. Fourteen bishops attended, the most ever. Many another prelate sent a personal representative, and for the first time a bishop, the Most Rev. Aloisius Joseph Muench of Fargo, was elected president. This was significant, because no Catholic movement can prosper unless it is backed by the hierarchy...
Since then botanists have hunted through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...