Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been nominated for the most important position in the world. Your great ability and your wide experience will enable you to serve our party and our country with marked distinction. I wish you all the success that your heart could desire. May God continue to bestow upon you the power to do your duty."* Calvin Coolidge to Herbert Clark Hoover, via telegraph...
...Republican Party pledges itself to the development and enactment of measures which will place the agricultural interests of America on a basis of economic equality with other industry to insure its prosperity and success...
...doubtful if this account of the campaign machine would seem accurate to the men whom Hoover beat. To them Good's success is almost sinister. They see in him an almost Catilinian figure who, by some mysterious and influential energy, succeeded in making use of the most miscellaneous collection of backers that any nominee could have. Able political writers, well aware of this, are equally amazed at Good's adroit handling of a difficult endeavor. Wrote a thoughtful correspondent to the New York...
Jacob Ruppert, brewer, owner of the New York Yankees, vowed last week he would never marry. Said he: "A hundred years from now there will be no marriages. . . . The only way marriage can be a success is for the husband and wife to live separately and see each other only a few times each week. . . . Married women are the most successful companions in the world-for the bachelors. ... If it becomes necessary for me to find companionship, I'll go to an Old Man's home...
Last week, the students of the Experimental College issued a booklet telling all about the first year. It breathed enthusiasm: "minds set free," "intellectual success." Dr. Meiklejohn added a cautious note: "the College is too young to be judged." But, said he, "As a venture in friendship the College has succeeded beyond all question...