Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continued success to both TIME and LIFE; two splendid weeklies. KATHERINE F. HUTCHINSON...
...First to dandelion onto U. S. newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime American News Co. executive, editor a generation ago of Success, and Editor Ross Duff Whytock, 48, former newshawk for the New York Evening World, hoped to secure their readers' views by offering good pay for good letters...
...annual meeting three years ago an Independent Stockholders' Committee started a proxy battle to oust the management because of mounting deficits. The attack fizzled when Reo's onetime President Richard Hugh Scott decided that he wanted no feud with old Chairman Ransom Eli Olds. In 1935, increased success with Speed Wagons and heavy duty trucks enabled Reo to finish the year with a deficit of only $220,000, a reduction of $738,000 from 1934. But last year the deficit swelled to $1,399,000. This included $605,000 for extraordinary expenses occasioned by discontinuance...
...Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success or failure of his own particular match. Likewise in lacrosse and many others it seems inconceivable that the players can give any more to the game than they actually do, and yet they come off at the end of the season with a smaller "H" than those who indulge...
Published without the consent of its author, the novel achieved huge success in Germany until, after twelve editions, Liepmann returned to the country and immediately put a stop to further publication. The story is in the main taken from the author's own diaries--the diaries of an introspective child of the war. "It is one of those books which can never be forgotten never as long as you live," were the words the late John Galsworthy addressed to the author after reading the book in the original German...