Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly to be expected that John L. Lewis' modest personality would be subdued by his steel poll success; but yesterday he overstepped not only the bounds of prudence but also of political common sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would...
With a not too impressive record of eight wins and nine losses before yesterday's encounter, victory in the objective game of the Samborski-coached nine climaxed the season with success...
Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...
Woodrow Wilson's tremendous success is the most outstanding of these factors contributing to the interest of the narrative. His rise from a college professorship to the presidency of Princeton, thence to the governorship of New Jersey, and finally to the White House, enables his daughter to make this otherwise simple family story a vivid portrayal of the disturbing effects of fame and a public career on their quiet home life. This theme, although rarely dealt with in the past, is a dramatic one, and the writer treats it capably with a touch of humor and a strange note...
...Formerly there was no idea more attractive to the working man than the ladder of success," Walsh began. "Workers believed that they could rely on themselves for success, and this independent spirit made unions unattractive, but now it is becoming obvious especially after some of the changes brought about by the depression that there is much less chance to advance...