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...outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gloomy Sundays | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...about Republican sentiment in that key State except that the local gentlemen do not want National Chairman John Hamilton's finger poking into their local affairs. Over Charles B. Goodspeed, the G. O. P.'s national treasurer and John Hamilton's good friend, they elected Hill Blackett, 47, advertising tycoon (Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc.), who handled radio time for the Landon campaign. Announced Committeeman Blackett last week: "Any man has an equal chance as far as I'm concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Committeeman | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...oddest outfits in the very odd business of radio is Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc. Not only is the company the No. 1 buyer of radio time, it is the No. 1 producer of radio material-and, incidentally, a big source of professional exasperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hummerts' Mill | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hummerts' Mill | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Patterson, president of United Air Lines, it seemed that Blackett-Sample-Hummert were trying to tell the U. S. flying public that it is not only more comfortable on American Airlines, but safer. It is a custom that no airline ever violates the united front against anti-flying psychology and earthly means of transportation, for if a customer is told that the route of one airline is needlessly risky, instead of taking another airline he may take a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Low Level | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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