Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administered the fact-finding agencies of her department, the children's bureau, the women's bureau, with fine, earnest competence. The Department's Conciliation Service has functioned with more success than is generally credited to it. In 1940, its 110 conciliators intervened in 1,568 threatening situations, averted strikes in 95% of them. The year before, the Service was successful in 93% of its cases. But that success was due less to Ma Perkins than to such able men as Chief Conciliator John R. Steelman and, before him, to Assistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady...
...Roosevelt is an excellent poker player, and probably one of the principal explanations for this is his continual refusal to call a spade a spade. He has been just one card ahead of the public since last June, and with phenomenal success has directed opinion into planned channels. This is his right as President, but to employ the methods of unfounded alarm and misnomer, as he is now doing on the convoy issue, is both hypocritical and dishonest...
...world where there is nothing in which to believe, where Christianity is dead. Dion, the creative artist, "pleads weakly for intense belief in anything." Billy Brown, on the other hand, is the symbol of what has replaced Christianity: a "visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth--a Success." It is the mystery in these two "conflicting tides in the soul of man" that O'Neill wants to convey...
...third group, which holds the success or failure of the strike in the balance, feels that the aims endorsed by the Strike Committee are merely a cover-up for a suppressed desire to go back on aid to England entirely. This party is represented most vociferously by the Liberal Union, would-be saboteurs of the Peace Strike, an organization which has never been able to make up its collective mind whether it wants to go to war or not. Against this group the Strike has the defense only of its representation. Many of its sponsors do oppose sending aid, believing...
Katherine Hepburn manages to play what some critics claim is Katherine Hepburn with consummate artistry. James Stewart acts out what is most certainly not James Stewart with considerably less success. And Cary Grant serves as an excellent back-drop for the two. Take the acting of these three, plus excellent support from the minor characters, a highly sophisticated (often too sophisticated) script, and excellent direction throughout, and you have "The Philadelphia Story...