Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prize picture in the pamphlet was that of Brooklyn's benign, blue-eyed Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey milking a cow. Its caption: "A jolly family man from Brooklyn who loves milking." It was taken ten years ago when Boss McCooey participated in a milking contest for the benefit of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing...
...poking fun at advertisers, but in desultory fashion. Now it is largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than at birth. Such paid advertising as it can get, it takes, burlesqued or not. Of the crop of imitators which sprang up during Ballyhoo's initial success, all but one-"Captain Billy" Fawcett's Hooey - have disappeared...
...used Mr. Young during the campaign but had passed him by as an adviser since March 4. Slightly defeatist, Mr. Young has experienced politics, international economics, big business. Last week at Cambridge's Radcliffe he weighed the New Deal, concluded that it would be neither a complete success nor an utter failure. A thoughtful critic. he predicted that "the immobility of men's minds, the persistent force of habit, the resistance to new rules" would thwart quick fundamental changes in U. S. life...
...Chicago Opera Company, so-named after an Aïda performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their...
...system, thereby forcing repeal of the law, national bankers have no way of avoiding the tax except by leaving the Federal Reserve system. This some sound banks in financial centres would doubtless do except for the numerous disadvantages which nonmembership imposes. Believing that the only hope for the success of deposit guarantee is that the Federal Government may be able to force bankers to be not only good but wise, commercial bankers found themselves standing between the Devil and Deposit Guarantee...