Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Secret of Boss Hague's success is as simple and austere as arithmetic. He holds tight control of Hudson County, where he is boss and mayor of Jersey City. New Jersey, outside of Hudson County, normally votes Republican; but year in, year out, populous, Democratic Hudson County holds the balance of power in New Jersey, and Boss Hague has Hudson County tucked in his neat derby...
...citizen. Day before his Forty Fair opened, Harvey Gibson made no predictions. Said he, disparaging the importance of "mere numbers": "If everybody who comes to the Fair has a good time, we will be satisfied."* By that homey standard, Mr. Gibson's opener last week was a huge success...
...ritual is said to include wrestling matches (from which they often emerge in tatters) and critical bull sessions in which members tell each other their faults, prod each other to strive for Success. Main room in the tomb is reputed to have a marble altar and an illuminated skull...
Grant explains his later success by better parts. Says he: "The characters can do something. For instance, they drink." Grant himself, who seldom refuses a glass, has scaled the dizzier heights of Hollywood society, and his New Year's Eve parties are among Hollywood's best...
Reviewing the history of U. S. efforts at internationalism, Historian Beard does not spare the rod. Neither foreign trade nor foreign lending, he observes, has been a dazzling success for the U. S.; U. S. internationalism has not availed to prevent war. But he insists that whenever the issue has been put to them directly...