Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...
...Krimsky $ Gifford Cochran, producers). The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse. From the 200-year-old John Gay libretto, Messrs Brecht & Weill made a modern German adaptation. It became a cinema and an operetta called Die Dreigroschenoper. These played about the European capitals with marked success. Then Messrs Krimsky & Cochran anglicized the operetta, first naming their production The Beggar's Opera, then The Three-Pence Opera, then The 3-Penny Opera...
...steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast iron, not forged steel, cannot be, sharpened and are used for little but paper cutting. Some moderate success in stimulating business has been obtained by marketing chrome-steel scissors that will not tarnish, and magnetized scissors useful in picking up pins & needles...
...embargo on gold, it appears to me, is a necessary Prerequisite to a vigorous attempt to combat deflation. The ground is now cleared both nationally and internationally, for a courageous, but same attempt to increase monetary incomes. Up to the present the success of any bold policy to overcome the depression would have been jeopardized by the deflationary effects of a possible outflow of gold. This danger is now removed...
...those whose capitalism is not congenital but acquired. For the old rule, that those who are industrious and good shall have the earth and survive, and that those who are lazy and dissolute shall have nothing and perish, is a rule which Mr. Schwab has applied with conspicuous success. Through that rule, and a nice adjustment of principle, Mr. Schwab became chairman of Bethlehem, administered its affairs during the war with strength and dexterity, and gave it a surplus of which the jolliest profiteers were envious...