Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 2) but the agency seemed to be bearing up nobly. Although many an adman would not rate American Tobacco's account as No. 1 on his popularity Hit Parade, one R.&R. executive said: "We have not had more trouble than you would expect from an exacting client." An underling at F.C.&B. was blunter. Asked if it was true that the $3,000,000 plum had indeed dropped into F.C.&B.'s lap, the employe sighed: '"Yes, too true...
...agency also adopted another policy which showed that its founders had learned something while teaching R.&R. an expensive lesson. In S.S.C.&B. all top executives will participate in weekly conferences with clients, thus building up a personal contact between the client and the firm as a whole (and perhaps preventing any S.S.C.&B. man from taking an account along when he leaves...
...last week, S.S.C.&B had signed up accounts totaling more than $5 million, announced that it would take on only one more client this year. Admen wondered who the new client would be. Into S.S.C.&B. this week went another R.&R. vice president, 38-year-old William Spire. His job at R.&R.: account executive for the $3 million account of the American Tobacco Co. (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike...
...Boston law firm of Robes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, representing Harvard in the suit, reported that an attorney called them the day after stories of the suit appeared in Boston newspapers, claiming that a client of his was confident he had the art-work in question...
Lustig's counsel, Lloyd Paul Stryker, admitted to the jury that his client had been "delinquent." Nevertheless, he had a defense: Lustig, said he, had voluntarily confessed his delinquency, had paid the Treasury $1,800,000 as a compromise settlement. In return he had been promised immunity from criminal prosecution. But, said Stryker, "high Government officials cheated and deceived Henry Lustig!" What officials? Why, "the boss" was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Treasury Secretary when the Lustig investigation began. Before the trial ends, some weeks hence, Stryker promised to call Morgenthau as a witness...