Word: adman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...
Readers of Airwoman know that the Betsey Barton, who edits a monthly page called "Cloud Club," is the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of gladsome Adman Bruce Barton. Last summer an automobile accident bedded Daughter Betsey in her Manhattan home with a broken back. Propped up in bed with pillows, spunky Editor Barton gathers chit-chat from correspondents, types it out with her father's breeziness, more flippancy. Well enough last week to be wheeled out to a cinema, she said: "I want to try my darnedest to get more people, especially young women, interested in aviation...
Married. Mary Curley, 26, only daughter of Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, "First Lady of the Commonwealth"; and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Calvin Donnelly, Boston adman; by William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...
...highways, finest in the world, are little better than Siberia's in dead of winter. That something should be done about it was suggested last week by John R. Adams, Detroit adman. His suggestion: Lay sheet steel surfacing on concrete imbedded with electrical heating units to melt ice & snow. Adman Adams believes his heated highways will be here...
...rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred to the advertising side, his successful profession ever since. Twenty-three years ago Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson of the New Orleans Item-Tribune hired Adman Newmyer as business manager. Under his management the papers thrived, and he with them...