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Died. Carl Duisberg, 73, organizer in 1925 and chairman of Germany's great dye trust, the I. G. Farbenindustrie, head of the Reich Federation of German Industry until he resigned in 1931; near Cologne. While employed by Fr. Bayer & Co. (Aspirin and other chemical products), he produced such coal-tar dyes as benzopurpurin (red), azo-blue, benzoazurin, sulfonazurin...
...Administration on a new food & drug law. The Senate Commerce Committee reported out a bill which was much less than Dr. Tugwell and Mrs. Roosevelt had originally planned, but much more than the makers and merchandisers of Ovaltine, Listerine, Ex-Lax, Sal Hepatica, Vicks, Fleischmann's Yeast, Aspirin, Pepsodent, Danderine, Vitalis, et al. cared to accept voluntarily. And President Roosevelt prodded Congress on to action with a special message...
Topping the list was Chicago's Blackett- Sample-Hummert, Inc. which laid out a total of $4,104,000 for eight programs over National Broadcasting Co.'s system 14 over Columbia Broadcasting System.† Its radio accounts included Bayer's Aspirin, Ovaltine, College Inn Food Products. Nearly tied with Blackett was the leader for the two previous years, J. Walter Thompson, with accounts like Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Fleischmann), Cutex, Carter's Ink, Eastman Kodak, Kraft-Phenix Cheese. Third with a radio budget of $2,900,000 was Lord & Thomas whose best account is American Tobacco...
...forestall such a possibility of outside interference, five radio bandmasters met this week in Paul Whiteman's Manhattan apartment, formed a Committee of Five for the Betterment of Radio. Members: Paul Whiteman (Kraft's Cheese), Rudy Vallée (Fleischmann's Yeast), Guy Lombardo (St. Joseph's Aspirin), Abe Lyman (Phillips' Milk of Magnesia), Richard Himber (Studebaker). Similar committees, they announced, would be formed in Chicago and San Francisco and other key cities...
...known Memphis Businessman is William Neely ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, All-America Yale footballer (1923), last man tapped for Skull & Bones in his year, vice president of Memphis Cotton Compress & Storage Co. and president of the Carnival Association. Then there is Abe Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town's dry goods...