Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armaments is for self defense. . . . Armaments may reach a point where they cease to give security. . . . The expenditures on armaments are greater today than they were before the War. . . . We are not going to pull very far out of this Depression unless we reduce armaments and make a genuine success of this Conference...
British Plan. Making a success of the Conference meant, last week, that the Great Powers must get their new disarmament plans off their Chief Delegates' chests and that these plans must be such as to tempt Germany back into the parley...
Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
...AMERICAN Business Leaders" "suggests if it does not prove" that inborn ability rather than unequal opportunity is still the predominant explanation in the success stories of America's industrial captains. Professor Taussig, director of the research and author with Mr. Joslyn, arrives at his conclusion after a masterful and scholarly analysis of his statistics. While eminently understandable by the layman, the book is at the same time exhaustively precise with interesting appendices, sufficient for the most particularizing pedant...
These aspiring to an early success will be interested to see that there in a greater proportion of young business leaders in the small than in the large corporations. Dividing the 7,371 selected leaders into age groups of five years, it was discovered that the largest group was that from 50 to 54 years of age, which constituted 17.1 per cent. Only 1.1 per cent were under 30. Those who received financial aid in excess of $10,000 reached their positions about two years sooner than those without such...