Word: adman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix in which he died, was a director of some 40 corporations (although he seldom attended meetings), was associated in many a business with his great & good friends Adman Lasker, Charles Alexander McCulloch, John Daniel Hertz. He believed religiously in all the old maxims, went to bed early, got up early, rode horseback almost to the day of his death, at 70 looked 20 years younger. Red faced, clear eyed, with not a grey hair in his head, recently...
Buyers of the magazine were able Adman George S. Fowler, vice president of Pictorial Review since last April, and Lee Ellmaker, lately general manager of Macfadden Publications and publisher of Liberty since Macfadden bought it. Large and fat, Lee Ellmaker has the reputation of being a shrewd publisher. With the financial help of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott Vare, whom he had previously served as secretary, he established the tabloid Daily News in Philadelphia, built it up to be a moneymaker, sold control to Macfadden, whose only successful newspaper it now is. Because of his flair for economy...
...geles Evening Express (reputedly for $2.800.000) ten months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they had traded papers in Pittsburgh. Detroit and Milwaukee. But Publisher...
...Editor, during those trying seven years of Van Tassel to Forker to Drake during which Harper's Bazaar became a valuable property, was the now noted observer, successful Adman and happy TIME reader...
First floral offering to be delivered to Col. Knox was a large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled...