Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program to communicate the fact to him at the White House. In the four days before he went off to finish his vacation at Hyde Park he and his Recovery Generalissimo, General Hugh S. Johnson, received about 20,000 responses. On that showing he pronounced his campaign already a success...
...Little Brother of the Rich," "Minnesinger to Millionaires," and even "Poison Ivy." Ivy Lee would state his own occupation as "adviser in public relations." Whatever the title, the noteworthy facts are that Ivy Lee first sold the "public relations" idea to Big Business, and made an unequalled personal success...
...scheme worked so well that when in 1914 the Rockefellers got into trouble with their Colorado Fuel & Iron strike, John D. Rockefeller Jr. took Arthur Brisbane's advice: he borrowed Pennsylvania's Ivy Lee. Since young Ivy Lee was new to a new game, his success was not signal. He made the grave error of accepting and circulating as true all facts & figures given him by the mine operators. Later he was revealed by a U. S. commission as having drafted a strike memorandum for the Governor of Colorado to send, as his own, to President Wilson. However...
...actors during the early years. In spite of warnings of critcs Bushnell Cheney started out with a Ford truck with a converted chasis which served as the stage and another smaller car for the lights. During their first year they toured Southern New England and met with instant success. The following year they extended their tour to include Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and received commendations from critics for their improvement. Now the itinerary includes New York and Long Island as well as all New England...
...kind treatment-ten baby rattlesnakes, of which four survived. As far as records show, no one else has ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third time-getting rattlesnakes to breed in captivity. Curator Wiley never removes the fangs from her rattlers, ascribes her success in handling them to kindness. She likes to have one coiled in her lap "like a contented old cat" while she sews...