Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the newcomers were given an opportunity to win their spurs in French and Italian operas, some in the popular-priced auxiliary season demanded by Juilliard. Most smashing popular-priced success was a lively performance of The Bartered Bride in English...
Plenty of pretty girls in the fewest possible clothes was the formula which made Fort Worth, Tex.'s Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating...
...Uncompahgre Valley, early stamping ground of Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and Billy the Kid. His first practical mining experience was on a steam shovel on a copper property at $4 per day. Even in high school, however, he was taking long shots on penny mining stocks with notable success. In 1921 he went East to unload a big stock of gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted...
...enlisted as a private. After landing in France he was a major and later became first assistant judge advocate in the Service of Supply with the rank of major. Out of the War with numerous decorations, Leon Fraser sprouted as an international lawyer amid Reparations and War Debts. His success as counsel to the U. S. bigwigs in the Dawes and Young Plan negotiations led to his appointment as vice president and director of the Bank for International Settlements ("The World Bank") at Basle, Switzerland in 1930. Three years later, at 43, he became president, continued his habits of cutting...
...sent them to his brother, who personally read them to the official concerned. For a number of reasons-including the failure of banks to handle the loans, bad set-backs to the Northern cause, the danger of war with England, as well as Cooke's previous small success in selling securities directly to the public-Chase abruptly gave Cooke the commission. Thereupon the banker was galvanized into activity that was as undignified as it was successful. With 2,500 agents in the field, heavy advertising appropriations (bankers had previously received $150 each for advertising Government issues) Cooke sold notes...