Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writer Johnston insinuated that, after three false starts in insurance, Son James's ultimate success was entirely due to his father's becoming President. Replies:" Sure, I got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President. . . . But, son or no son, I got tossed out a lot too. Listen, fellow, prospects don't wilt just because you're the son of the President. Try it sometime...
...Bewdley, has $1,250,000 to administer at his discretion for the purpose of drawing the Mother Country and other parts of the British Commonwealth even more closely together. This huge sum was given by an anonymous British donor as a thank offering for Mr. Baldwin's masterly success in keeping Mrs. Simpson off the throne of England. For some time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl has been in no hurry...
...Bulgarians! The war clauses no longer exist. This great success is due to the wise leadership of Tsar Boris III who has accomplished it in the proper way, at the proper time. Long live the Tsar! Long live Bulgaria...
...Hierarchy of the cinema industry is confusingly simple. At the top are financiers who run the industry from Manhattan or San Francisco. Hollywood is tenanted by hirelings. Top hirelings of the movie industry are a handful of producers, generally one at each studio, who are ultimately responsible for the success or failure of its total output. Under the producers and associates in the scale of authority are directors. Under the directors is everyone else on the lot, from grips to Greta Garbo...
...ground to Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, seemed sure to be supplanted. Crowding both was Nordhoff & Hall's The Dark River, called by booksellers a "one-month" bestseller. Possibly Kenneth Roberts' Trending Into Maine should be considered in the same category. At any rate. success in Pittsburgh and Boston made Author Roberts the only U. S. author of the year to have two books on best-seller lists...