Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Causes That Succeed. Searching for the "elegant, modern, beautiful, and cultured," Edna Chase was a shrewd, resourceful scrapper. For years she feuded (but always in discreet modulations) with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who bought Harper's Bazaar to compete with Vogue in 1913, later wooed away much of her top talent, including her heiress apparent, Carmel Snow. (Although they often appear to be identical twins, Vogue still leads Harper's Bazaar in circulation, 392,507 to 365,023, and Old Rival Snow, now editor in chief, readily admits "Edna Chase really started fashion journalism...
...successors to those killed. Last week, complying with Commerce's new "continuity of management" program, Western Union asked stockholders to approve two simple changes in company bylaws. The changes: 1) remaining board members may elect new directors with "less than a quorum," and 2) surviving vice presidents may succeed the president in order of seniority. Other top U.S. companies have already taken similar will-making measures, including Ford, Standard Oil (N.J.), U.S. Steel, A.T. & T., Jones & Laughlin, Du Pont...
...Silberstein does succeed in his goal-electing six directors to the eleven-man Fairbanks, Morse board-his victory might yet be Pyrrhic. Penn-Texas may control Fairbanks, Morse, but since Illinois law requires a two-thirds vote of shares for corporate merger, the Morse family holdings are enough to block any real union between the two companies. Moreover, if F-M stock drops after Silberstein wins-and Morse himself says it is much too high-the Morse-financed Landa committee may yet put Silberstein in hot water at Penn-Texas' own meeting in May by confronting him with some...
...Morgan J. Davis, 58, executive vice president of Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), will succeed President Hines H. Baker, 63. Baker retires as president and director next month, will become a director of Humble's parent company, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). The first geologist to occupy Humble's presidency, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 190 lbs.) Morgan Davis joined Humble in 1925 after graduating from the University of Texas, left to become resident geologist in Sumatra for a Dutch petroleum firm, returned to Humble in 1934 as district geologist...
...enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake! ... I am going to succeed in everything I undertake!' (Repetition, reiteration. Tap-tap-tap! Always tapping, pushing forward. Repeating, repeating-seeing yourself doing it, over and over-visualizing, 'I can! . . .' 'I will! . . .' I believe...