Word: battened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...other advertising honors awarded this year by the trade-paper Advertising & Selling in continuance of the Harvard Awards founded in 1924 by the late Edward Bok. To Katharine Fisher, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and to Arthur Charles Nielsen, Chicago market researcher, went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first...
...Guimier handled more particularly the advertising side of the business and in France it is not considered strange that there should exist an Agence which in the U. S. could be duplicated only by merging into strange bedfellowship, for example, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and the Associated Press. Adman Guimier is also the publisher of the violently anti-Blum daily Journal and as such is a newsman in his own right. Last week he broke the biggest French press story in years by resigning his Havas directorship and hurling the charge that Premier Blum had told Havas they could take...
Snapped President Batten in a public counterattack: "In today's newspapers appears a statement purporting to emanate from George H. Thornley, formerly a vice president of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., to the effect that he has exercised an option to acquire stock control of this corporation. . . . Since he is seeking to establish this contention over the opposition of all parties concerned by litigation, the officers of the corporation are opposed to any attempt to try the case in the newspapers...