Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members who were to be questioned; that members of the A. Y. C. should have booed her husband when he addressed them last winter on the White House lawn. Rejoined Mrs. Roosevelt: "Many things are regrettable, Mr. Sullivan." Mrs. Ericksen's party, the guests agreed, was an exciting success...
McAdoo's Mistake. From the U. S. Treasury's standpoint, the excess-profits tax of 1918 was a howling success. Together with the less lucrative war-profits tax, it raised $2,505,566,000 in its first year, was the Treasury's all-time-record money raiser. But it was one of the most unpopular taxes levied in the U. S. since the Boston Tea Party. Years later William Gibbs McAdoo, whose job was to collect it, wrote: "The unpopularity of the bill . . . was undoubtedly the most potent factor in the defeat of the Democrats...
...Cochran lamented: "I was getting going again, but Hitler put me right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
Washington is still a city of strain for any Ambassador, no matter how great his personal success, and last week Lord Lothian was feeling the strain. As knowledge of the extent of the French collapse swept over the diplomatic colony, feeling was summed up in a phrase: "Now there is only one Ally." As Lord Lothian drove to the State Department he passed the Czech Legation, where sad-looking Minister Vladimir Hurban still lives. Next door to it the old Austrian Legation was gone, its Minister now a Georgetown University professor and his wife the local representative of a dress...
...early career on the air, The Missus Goes to Market opened 10,000 new outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener...