Word: successful
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What further thoughts Franklin Roosevelt had were not disclosed. Felix Frankfurter, who was credited with advising the President to postpone a court test until NRA was an established success, and Mr. Richberg, who had declined to make the Court test on the Belcher lumber case (TIME, April 8) and then picked the Schechter case as the best way of taking NRA to Court, must both have felt distinctly sheepish. New Deal lieutenants on the House Ways & Means Committee fiddled around fruitlessly with a new bill to plug the holes the Supreme Court had dug in the Recovery...
Increasing the discount rate is a means of arresting the flight of gold from France. The excitement that prevails among the cabinet in Paris indicates that its success is doubtful. Should the attempt fail, the result would probably be abandonment of the gold standard. Since France and Italy--whose currency has recently been decidely unstable--are the only great powers remaining on gold, this might in turn result in the prevalence of managed currency throughout the world...
...There is little reason for her to waste men and money in the country. But France and Britain have one most distinct reason for wishing some white nation to control Abyssinia. For four years Japan has been quietly penetrating the country. Japanese farmers are growing Abyssinian cotton with increasing success, they have grabbed her textile market from under Britain's nose, they are becoming more and more free of dependence on British raw cotton for Japan's mills. Further, Japanese immigrants marry Abyssinians, treat them as equals. Practical colonial administrators call the Japanese penetration of Abyssinia a most...
...recently married son of a York, Neb. lawyer, Grinnell (Iowa) College A.B., onetime Harvard law student, onetime jobhunter, who expects to graduate next month from the University of Colorado College of Engineering. His reward: $100. A fact which the American Institute of Chemical Engineers found significant to the continuing success of U. S. industry: "Not only was the quality of winning solutions better than in previous years, but also there were this year more good solutions and few really poor ones...
...Empress, Catherine was a hardworking success. She got up at dawn, worked 15 hours a day. She was no voluptuous debauchee: "her love-life resembled that of an important business man; it was simple, very sentimental, and rather pathetic." Catherine found her liberal-philosophizing theories sharply modified by the experience of ruling Russia. When Philosopher Diderot reproached her for her change of heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan...