Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fervor was added to the proceedings by Colgate University's president, Dr. George Barton Cutten. President Cutten said: "TIME Magazine has called me 'the most reactionary college president in America.' Well, I have good company. I think God is reactionary, doing the things the same as he did 20,000 years ago. ... I suppose the young people today say He hasn't an open mind because He doesn't do things in a modern way. If He did, I suppose they would have girl babies born with hairline eyebrows, purple lips and green fingernails...
...most serious stockholders' revolt in the history of 88-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. was staged last fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...
...23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered as "my report," an angry voice broke...
...already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s. In 1928 they merged with...
...Durstine, who began as general manager of BBD&O, became president in 1936. But there was no little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...