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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise men know that Mr. Hull's reluctance can be overcome and when that will be-when his trade agreement program is safely in harbor. Solemnly all Washington admits that if Mr. Hull today were to be given his choice of the Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election year. That No. 1 appraiser of U. S. selfishness, Post master General James A. Farley, once said: ". . . Cordell Hull is the most unselfish man I ever met." Agreement Disagreement. The saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place where our men were supposed to be having their only real success? And that we have no chance of winning until warm weather returns? This is the campaign which was to end in ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Sleepless Nights | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...result of this and other stories, most musicians felt that the play might be a success, but that it would be a commercial and not an artistic one. They felt that the book was undergoing typical Broadway treatment and being completely slaughtered in the process--the casting of Hawkins being an example...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...least important reason for Boettiger's success as a publisher is his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editorial We | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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