Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the day they first began working together in an advertising agency 24 years ago, William Burnett Benton and Chester Bowles blended like benedictine and brandy. Within eleven years Benton & Bowles, still in their 30s, had built an ad agency of their own into an $18 million-a-year business...
The partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found...
The purpose of this series is simply to give as many people as possible more information about the way advertising works in the public interest. It is running now because the present period of increased sales activity seemed to be an appropriate time for advocating a fresh understanding of advertising...
The battle of the courts was just another phase of New Dealer Chester Bowles's continuing war with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. A fortnight ago Bowles adjourned the legislature by proclamation, under a 131-year-old law never used before, to get the House out of his...