Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink-cheeked Lou Maxon, successful head of a successful advertising agency, took over as deputy OPAdministrator last February, he announced he would try to make rationing popular. This was a laudable ambition, roughly comparable in size to the job of draining the oceans. Lou Maxon did not succeed...
...Comers. Nonetheless Banker Giannini has for years been stocking the executive floor of his bank with likely younger men who may one day succeed him. His taciturn lawyer son Lawrence Mario (48), who has been Bank of America president since 1936, has always been frail, lately has spent long periods away from his desk. Last year, when A.P. bought California's Pacific Finance Co., he made its go-getting, 50-year-old president Francis Baer vice chairman of the bank's board, and West Coast financiers buzzed that A. P. bought the company...
...Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...from Honolulu, he took me to lunch in Chicago. While waiting for the English mutton chops at St. Hubert's Inn, he popped the question, "How many are two and two?" I baruchly gave the answer, "Four, of course." "Young man." he sternly corrected, "you will never succeed in advertising until you learn that two and two can make...
...still left two of the "big four" U.S. orchestras on a sustaining program basis: the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra. But musicians viewed the Rubber and Motors patronage as a portentous symptom. In the postwar world, industry might replace private wealth as music's chief patron, might even succeed in putting fine concert music and opera on a paying basis...