Word: byronical
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...Army had learned by experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
...secretary led the General into Avery's paneled office. General Byron handed Avery President Roosevelt's order directing the U.S. Army to seize Ward's $302 million mail order and retail business for the second time in seven months. Franklin Roosevelt also ordered Ward's to obey two War Labor Board directives: 1) to pay retroactive raises to 17% of Ward's 70,000 employes;* 2) to sign a union contract guaranteeing maintenance of membership. Sputtered Sewell Avery, the New Deal's No. 1 industrial hairshirt: "Arbitrary . . . coercive . . . illegal." Citing Roosevelt's failure...
Three months ago, advertising trade papers carried stories that Byron Keating had opened an advertising agency. When he landed his first account-the Little Tot Food Products Co.-such trade papers as Broadcasting carried the news. Then Advertising Age bulletined that Byron Keating Co. ("Cincinnati's fastest growing agency") was planning a new campaign for Soyscuits, a soybean biscuit...
...month ago, advertising trade papers carried news of the death of "Byron Keating, 59, after a heart attack attributed to overwork." Actually, Byron Keating was killed by his own parents-the two Cincinnati copywriters from whose lively imaginations he had sprung to hoax the advertising world...
...week the remains of Bvron Keating-piles of news clips-were decently interred in Keating's "office," the middle drawer of Hill's desk. Hill and Eckels have only one regret: "We had a corker planned. We were going to phony up a foundation-garment account for Byron Keating. We were going to have the phony company pick a Miss Uplift from clerks behind brassiere counters...