Word: admen
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...York Times called them "Advertising men." The N. Y. Herald-Tribune called them "Ad" men. The N. Y. World called them Admen, thereby coining a new noun to define the "leaders of a profession essential to human existence," who assembled in international convention last week in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia...
From 14 countries they came, strong men and suave men, sputtering men and conservative men, dynamic men and diplomatic men, admen all. President Coolidge sent messages of good cheer. In the message that opened the convention, their president, C. K. Woodbridge (U. S.), spoke of "the radio . . . telephone . . . telegraph . . . airplanes . . . automobiles . . . daily papers . . . national magazines. . . ." With all these media of communication the admen were concerned; many of them were the paid publicity agents of the industries named; through these industries the utterances of their convention were distributed to a listening world...