Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomacy-as so many diplomats so often assert-is a profession. Last week, like a clan of impeccable Harley Street physicians shuddering over the success of some popular "bone setter," the established diplomatic practitioners of London winced anew at Charles Gates Dawes. Publicly, with hearty fist-bangs upon a London banquet table, the U. S. Ambassador had just rasped and barked...
After duplicating his Tribune circulation success with the Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep...
...CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE-A Theatre Guild success story with naughty Viennese overtones...
...This success resulted partly from the character of the directorate, partly from the executive ability of President Herbert P. Howell and his officers, partly from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...
...attractive weaves, chic modes. The spice of novelty was introduced through beach pyjamas, overalls, suntan frocks, quilted coats, printed slippers. Well did the cotton man's calico, gingham, piques, chambrays, gabardines lend themselves to these novelties. During the 1928-29 Palm Beach season cotton was an outstanding success. During the present season cotton fabrics have been conspicuously successful. Once sold to the smart world, it was certain that cotton would be sold to all the world. When sales are made in the Blue Book, the Telephone Book soon follows...