Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same cabin steward) and the new U. S. Ambassador to France, genial William Christian Bullitt, is regarded as the most pro-French U. S. envoy in Paris since the late Myron Herrick.* The political life of the Blum Cabinet has rested in recent weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion and facilitate the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5). Both Paris and Rome had the impression that Alf Landon would have tried to threaten them...
...denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never acknowledge them if they do. But his clearest picture of the literary jungle is in his account of his first success, Nocturne, with the "tonic" letter it won from Shaw: "I found it a damned dismal book...
...same post with Lord & Taylor's store, planned their crisp black and white advertisements, recommended more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch...
Fact was that to the Digest's aging Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, mail-order methods have always spelled success. This year, Editor Funk recommended that more money be spent to check and supplement the 1932 lists, was overruled. Only ten million ballots were mailed this year, half as many as in 1932. And anyone would guess that more Landon than Roosevelt voters were to be found at their 1932 addresses...
From three salients of the U. S. liquor business last week came word of new enterprise, new success. Cheerful items from vendors of good cheer: Champagne Guild. Last year only one bottle of champagne was sold for every 40 potential U. S. sippers. Hoping to raise this average at least a bottle a year, leading domestic producers got together last month, formed an American Champagne Guild. Last week, comparing notes, they discovered that champagne sales had already started to rise, were 80% greater this October than in the same month...