Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to influence the Press on the Public Utility Bill and particularly on Associated Gas & Electric Mr. Hopson had tried the usual trick of irate business men, threatening to withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...
...Hook lives with his father & mother in Ironwood, Mich. Three other Hook boys have families of their own. With one exception, the Hooks have not found worldly success. Brother Lawrence Hook, father of one, was on relief until last June. So were Father Michael Hook, Mother Mary Hook and Brother Joe Hook until this month, when Joe got a job. Still on relief last week were Brothers Herman and George Hook, each the father of two. The single exception to the general Hook haplessness is Brother Frank, father of two, a onetime city commissioner, county supervisor and municipal judge...
...through a retired manufacturer of lantern slides whose name the gallery proprietor last week stanchly refused to reveal. In 1874 the slide-maker had gone quietly to Joseph Boggs Beale and asked him to do a set of drawings to illustrate Pilgrim's Progress. They were a great success with Epworth Leagues and Sunday Schools. Soon the slide-maker asked for other drawings, in black & white, to illustrate books that he one day hoped to publish. From 1880 to 1900, methodical Joseph Boggs Beale produced drawings, always in the same technique, always in the same size, and the slide...
...loaned MOP $23,000,000. declared he did not believe the Van Sweringens would put forward another unworkable proposal. But when Plan No. 23 was filed with the Interstate Commerce Committee last week, MOP's other creditors were less confident than Mr. Jones of its ultimate success...
...brusque Arkansan named M. Frank Yount and a florid West Virginian named Thomas Peter Lee started Yount-Lee Oil Co. at Beaumont, Tex. On an original capital of $50,000 they spent 13 years drilling in Texas and Louisiana without spectacular success. Then suddenly, in 1926, Yount-Lee made national news by rediscovering the famed Spindletop Field near Beaumont. Everybody supposed that Spindletop had been drained dry. Yount-Lee opened a rich new producing sand by drilling deeper than anybody had had the courage to go before. Later the company discovered and developed the High Island Field in Galveston County...