Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day that Mr. Baruch was scoring this record success in Washington, a famed ship & arms manufacturer made headlines not by besting Congress but by besting his natural optimism. Charles M. Schwab, 73, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, returned to Manhattan from Europe and for the first time in his long career shocked ship news reporters by not expressing his belief that business was getting better. "We seem to be at a standstill." declared gloomy Mr. Schwab. "We don't seem to be progressing. We seem to have gone back since I have been away...
...appreciate manner and appearance as well as vocal qualities, he made a prodigious impression. He got 18 encores, a screen test that led to bit parts in Dancing Lady and Student Tour before he was chosen for the lead in Naughty Marietta. More amazed than delighted by his sudden success, Baritone Eddy, now 33, plans to continue his concert stage career while performing in cinema. In Manhattan for a concert fortnight ago he gave his views on Hollywood and music: "Opera in the movies? ... It isn't entertaining enough. . . . The movies have proved a splendid school for opera people...
...completely bald, massive as a seal, mottled as though he had been under water for years. Actually, his underwater record is only 3 min. 19 sec. He claims that, in his lifetime of water polo, he never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best...
...will be admitted to college on the recommendation of principals and headmasters, plus school marks, plus showing on aptitude tests, plus distinction in outside activities. Many a student thus admitted might be unable to pass the College Entrance Board examinations. But Progressive Educators stake their reputations on the success of progressively educated students in outshining college mates admitted under the standard procedure...
Designer of American Houses' prefabricated unit is also its board chairman. Architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. had already achieved fashionable success as a designer of rich men's homes when he built his first prefabricated house for Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. at Hazelton, Pa. in 1932. When Depression pointed up the need for low-cost housing, he persuaded some of his Princeton classmates to help him set up a company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect...