Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising space in the college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford...
...most noteworthy Republican event of the week took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become fascinated by politics since Manhattan's silk stocking district elected him to Congress last year. Said he last week...
...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
...President Conant's rejection of all the committee's conclusions except that on academic freedom and his curt refusal to reinstate the men are breathtaking. He takes the reasoned conclusions of men like Professors Ralph Barton Perry, Felix Frankfurter, W. S. Ferguson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Kenneth B. Murdock, Howard Shapely, and treats them with a whimsical impatience that would scarcely be accorded to a letter to the editor in an undergraduate newspaper...
...formed Reynard Corp., with himself as president, his brother Barton and his lawyer, C. E. Kelley, as fellow directors, and $60,000 of his own cash and bonds as capital. President Fox thereupon contracted to sell Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that...