Word: adman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Like Albert Frank he prospered, now collects rare books, manuscripts. In 1919 he merged with Russell Law under the name Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. Last week it was announced that these two famed firms would merge. Chairman of Albert Frank-Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law, Inc. will be Adman Guenther. President will be Albert Frank's present head, able Frank James Reynolds, onetime newshawk, onetime West Pointer. The financial agency differs from the general agency chiefly in that its eye is ever focused on saving and investment, not upon greater & greater consumption. While the big financial agencies...
...Friends wanted to give him a send-off banquet but he, though he loves good food and good friends, demurred. He did not want "to sit around and hear a lot of goddam flattery. Because. I'm not goin', I'm comin'!" Onetime associate of Adman Barron Collier, Publisher Swasey joined the Hearst organization on New Year's Day 1919 by taking charge (at no salary) of the' Los Angeles Examiner which was then suffering a boycott by department store advertisers. Aware that the boycott could not be broken for at least a year...
...Adman Younggreen viewed his step as "hot news." Previous hotspots in his upward rush from obscurity in Kansas: U. S. Air Corps in the War (emerging a captain); sales manager for J. I. Case Plow Works in Racine; presiding over the International Advertising Meeting in Berlin (1929); telling the U. S. Press, upon returning from Europe, that while his wife was dancing in a London night club she touched the Prince of Wales (TIME...
Last week Adman Klein returned to his old desk at the Evening Post. He had lasted a year with his first agency, was hired away by another which discharged him after three months. Said Reporter Klein last week...
Died. Lee B. Durstine, 80, father of famed Adman Roy Sarles Durstine of Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Wooster, Ohio. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s "Million Dollar Club," of which he was a member, consists of agents who sell that amount or more of insurance in a year...