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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommendation of President Crowley of the Fleet Corp. Assured of operating the line, this youngest living son of the late President Roosevelt exclaimed: "I am convinced that there is an excellent future for the American Merchant Marine and intend to devote all my time toward making my operations a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Kermity the Navigator | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Trust Co. of N. Y,, now offer to sell real estate bonds to workers especially. The sales appeal will be less the soundness of the security (which will be presumed) than the assumption that one worker ought to buy from another. The success of such trading on reputation is doubtful, for the labor men connected with this ingenious enterprise have joined it not as organization men, rather as wealthy individuals. Many of the entrepreneurs are directors of labor banks, but some have had no previous labor affiliations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Moral principles are at the base of all permanent business success- they go together. In the long run, every business question, every public question must be settled by what is right and what is wrong," he once declared. These business ideas, fantastic in their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...greeted him, waving the Star Spangled Banner and singing The Sidewalks of New York. The Governor of New York made an address: "Only hard work and hard study can carry the children of the sidewalks of New York, and"-the presidential candidate added-"the children of the country-to success and high honor." Then he went to breakfast with the bride and groom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidate Adds | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...music lasted until a late hour at the Senior Dance last night: the success of which augurs well for the gala Class Day program set for today. The Yard is in full raiment for the festivities to greet returning graduates, and Groundkeeper Dennis Enright reported last night that the Stadium award is in perfect condition for this afternoon's affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPREADS TO HOLD SWAY IN UNIVERSITY TODAY | 6/22/1926 | See Source »

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