Word: adman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adman Hunter, thanks for a complete description of Great Lakes Air- craft Corp...
Hardly a U. S. adman reached Europe without his wife. In addition there were some 300 female delegates. So Kate Kleefeld Stresemann, wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering...
...King's Men. It is a year since Walter Fairchild (Grant Mitchell) became a widower. Walter, slogan-spouting adman, is about to take himself a new wife. She, Florence Wendell (Mayo Methot) is to meet Junior Fairchild, Walter's 10-year-old son, and everybody hopes everybody else will like everybody else. Meanwhile Florence, inspecting the Fairchild apartment on Riverside Drive, feels she-doesn't-exactly-know-how in an apartment which was furnished by Walter's first wife and now is inhabited by her spirit. Florence wants to live in the East Sixties. Walter wants his western clients...
...court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited the advertisement...
Elected. Guy C. Smith, Chicago adman; to be president of the Association of National Advertisers; at their 19th annual convention, Atlantic City...