Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison of that list with the names of men who are doing "very well" in Wall Street, State Street, and elsewhere, will show that there are many names identical on both lists; that is to say, ten or fifteen years in the investment banking field has brought success in a large way to many Harvard...
With gleeful gruffness, Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, intoned the citation: "For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service . . . responsible for the organization, development and completion of a military program which brought success to the American arms . . . services of inestimable value to the country...
...Three weeks before his death, Newsreeler Traub went down in the submarine 54. In a bathing suit, with water up to his neck, with his camera mounted near the engineroom ceiling, he photographed the crew escaping one by one with "artificial lungs" (TIME Feb. 18). The device was a success, but not for Traub. He stayed where he was until the U. S. S. Mallard on the surface pumped the submarine full of air at high pressure, bringing her up but making Traub deaf for a while...
...distinguishing characteristic of the Harrods series was its success in making three excellent testimonials out of three refusals to give testimonials. Harrods had asked H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw to "lend the influence of their pens to the cause of Business" by writing what might vulgarly be termed an advertisement for Harrods. All three refused. But all three also wrote long letters explaining their position. Mr. Wells and Mr. Bennett virtually watered their refusals with their tears, Mr. Shaw seemed somewhat less tempted and some what less grieved...
...course, the mechanics of the Opel-G. M. deal. Every German motorcar maker knows that Opel's cheap ($650) standardized car last year controlled exactly half the German market (45,000 cars out of 90,000 total production). Yet G. M. executives, pondering Chevrolet's enormous success in the U.S., talked of scrapping the Opel, offering Germans a still cheaper car. Perhaps it might be the Chevrolet itself. Perhaps it might be a new make, lighter, with only 5 h. p., to sell at 1,800 marks...