Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Isaacs put it on the record: "Entirely too much public information is being bottled up ... [Nowadays, even] some 15th assistant to an assistant secretary can succeed in bamboozling some of the best news hands in the country. But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands. All they have to say is: 'This is off the record, boys,' and our reporters can then trot in dutifully and tell us that they know the whole story, but that they...
...many pounds of anxious study for it in advance. If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not." Say this sincerely, and feel it; and go out and play, or go to bed and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the method permanently...
...comment on Chettiar: "Why does not someone find him a wife?" The Mail observed: "The Minister's puritanism . . . derives from the absence of sweet softening feminine influences in his life. Now that the question has been broached, someone among the many matchmakers in South India will perhaps succeed in providing Bachelor Avinashilingam with a wife. We sincerely hope...
Murfreesboro to Morgan. Henry C. Alexander, 46, was named to the new post of executive vice president of J. P. Morgan & Co., thus got in line to succeed 63-year-old President George Whitney. Born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...
...Committee on Women in World Affairs last week urged the appointment of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to succeed Marshall, if he retires. Asked if she would accept, Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I think that's all too silly to discuss. I hope Secretary of State Marshall will not retire-for the good of the country and the good of the world...