Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

But, so far as its territorial objectives were concerned, the campaign was successful.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.

Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.

A ballistic missile cannot, today, tell you if it was successful or unsuccessful.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.

The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

Mr. Khrushchev was jesting in the expansive mood of the successful banker.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.

The suit against the union was successful and many workers lost their homes to pay off the judgment.

The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks: `` Wouldn't it be helpful to all age groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries ''??

His second campaign in 1834 was successful.

When the original stories were related ( e. g. The War against the Rull ) this was often successful.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

The song was written by Nashville songwriter Cy Coben, a friend of Atkins.

He was the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995.

Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her, that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

Hopkinson was an amateur author and songwriter at a time when Philadelphia and the colonies were not well known for the arts.

Gram Parsons ( November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973 ) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist.

Melcher ( who had worked with The Byrds and The Beach Boys and had rejected producing an unknown singer / songwriter by the name of Charles Manson ) was a member of the successful duo Bruce & Terry, also known as The Rip Chords.

He was also a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founded the Druidic organization Ár nDraíocht Féin, as well as the Neopagan civil rights group, the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League.

James Joseph Brown ( May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

He was noted for his ability as a bandleader and songwriter to blend the simplicity and drive of R & B with the rhythmic complexity and precision of jazz.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 ) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member

( It was quoted in the 1989 song “ No Control ” by songwriter and professor Greg Graffin.

Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994 ) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.

Johnny J was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World.