Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
...tariffs, such as Governor Roosevelt had suggested, produce a solution? Would it really be better business for the U. S. to revise War Debts downward? What about the U. S. taxpayer who would have to make up the amount of the revision? Could the debts be successfully used to bargain for better trade opportunities and arms cuts? If the U. S. insisted on full payment of political debts, would U. S. private debts abroad be imperiled? Such were some of the questions of the Hoover-Roosevelt conference. Any decision reached at the White House was worthless without the concurrence...
Paul Merrick Hollister resigned as vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising) to become publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain store, succeeding Kenneth Collins who left to form his own agency (TIME. Nov. 14). A onetime reporter on his hometown paper (Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which...
Last week the following was news: Kenneth Collins, smart young adman, resigned as publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain department store, to form his own agency. Year ago he resigned but changed his mind after a long talk with shrewd, paternal President Jesse Isidor Straus. Kenneth Collins' friends say he wanted to be a millionaire by 1936, that Jesse Straus promised to make him one (in Macy stock) if only he would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart...
...Denmark, Norway and Sweden as countries invited by His Majesty's Government last week to send representatives to London "for the purpose of discussing tariffs"- this being Great Britain's opening move in a campaign to force the U. S.. France and other Great Powers to bargain with her for tariff quids and quos...