Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. Aware of the widespread talk about universal fingerprinting, compulsory or voluntary, as an aid to law & order, Vice President Edward C. Johnston of Western Newspaper Union, a feature syndicate serving the rural Press, worked it into a newspaper promotion campaign. With ease he sold the idea to his client Walter B. Sanders, publisher of Geneseo's Leader. Last fortnight the Leader splashed down its front page a two-column invitation to all Geneseans to come to the newspaper office and be fingerprinted, free, by a new process using...
...swank clientèle moved slowly up the Island of Manhattan, Lord & Taylor's followed. In the 1850's the store was on Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...
...into the front page at the ring of a telephone. It has been there for years. It is the obituary of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Few weeks ago when aged, ailing Mr. Rockefeller went to Florida, newshawks begged his famed pressagent, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, to help them bring his client's obituary up-to-date. Last week in the swank Lee offices at No. 15 Broad St., Manhattan, the Lee associates went into a hurried conference over an obituary-not for John D. Rockefeller but for Ivy Lee. Death had come suddenly to the nation's first "public...
Also he tied up long-term contracts with Guy Earl's station KNX in Hollywood, Stanley Hubbard's KSTP in St. Paul. From a slowstart, Transradio rolled up many a potent client-the Michigan Network, the Yankee Network in New England, WLS in Chicago, KWK in St. Louis...
...Lucienne Boyer went straight on to another opening, even more elegant and gala, The Rainbow Room, on the 65th floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. First client to arrive was John D. Rockefeller Jr. who supplied some of the cash for The Rainbow Room's glass walls, color organ and two-speed reversible, revolving dance floor. At a table in an alcove farthest from the dance floor, Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller and their guests ? Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III?were half way through the club's $15 dinner before the other frolickers started...