Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grandfather, "Uncle Tommy" Meredith, ran a newspaper in Des Moines, The Farmers' Tribune, which cheered for the defunct Populist party. Young Edwin did odd jobs for his grandfather, finally took over the paper. At 25, he jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were...
...Author. Samuel Hopkins Adams is a successful hack writer who divides his time between advertising, muckraking and novels. He began as a reporter and feature writer on the New York Sun. A series of articles on quack medicines, which drove several manufacturers out of business, first brought him prominence in 1906. Later he conducted a column in the New York Tribune under the name of Ad-Visor, wherein he sought to expose dishonest advertising. Gimbel Brothers, potent Manhattan department store, brought suit against him when he attacked some of their advertisements. Gimbel Brothers won the suit. Mr. Adams...
...final indication of the mounting interest of Hungarians in the Monarchy was seen last week when the death mask of the Emperor Franz Josef, previously hawked without success among the numerous Austrian archdukes, was purchased for $2,000 by the Hungarian Archduke Friedrich. He, "Vater Friedrich" ("Papa Friedrich") is a genial bewhiskered man, the image of the Emperor whose death mask he purchased, would make "a good old-fashioned King" were he not too old to begin...
...American economic fibre is as it is now, there will be no call for widespread Labor agitation here nor will the Labor party succeed in England until it is unified under strong leaders, and succeeds in winning to its standard some of the districts that, under the glow of success, now stand aloof. When these districts and industries see the good that may be done by Labor united the party will be on the road to greater power...
...Barbee Jr. '28, W. Van A. Coombs '27, Kenneth Dorn '27, J. D. Leekley '27, and Captain J. S. Malick '27. The ineligibility of S. C. Burns '29 and Benjamin Thackaberry '29, two of the mainstays of last year's Freshman quintet, will hurt the chances of success this year, and faced with a dearth of experienced substitutes, Coach Wachter's prospects are rather gloomy...