Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keating made his biggest splash in the report of his talk before the Cincinnati Businessmen's League. Said Keating: "Agencies are doomed unless they establish totalitarian principles . . . with clients. Businessmen should keep their fingers out of advertising. Many agencies are producing inferior advertising, against their better judgment, for fear of losing lucrative accounts and because account executives 'butter-up' the client...
...suddenly got the idea for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (he was crossing a bridge in Westchester) to the time he was captured by Mediterranean pirates. With his successful older brothers making life easy for him, Irving took his lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully lampooned the Ten Eycks and Author Brooks's forebears the Van Wycks, hunted and fished through the farms and forests of Scarsdale and Tarrytown. He excelled at descriptive writing, became a model of English prose more...
...took all cases. Most celebrated: the famed Bridge Table Murder of 1929. A Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, after a bridge-table argument with her husband resulting from an overbid, shot him dead as he was standing in the bathroom. At the trial, Jim Reed, then 69, wept copiously. His client was acquitted...
...general, investment bankers do not like competitive bidding for securities, although it is required on railroad securities by the ICC decision of May 8, 1944. They prefer the comfortable, traditional, negotiated transaction between client and banker. And Great Northern's offering is just twice as large as the $50 million total which bankers generally believe is the top amount practicable under competitive bidding. To handle the Great Northern bonds, each syndicate must be extra-large. Hence, Wall Street does not expect that more than two or possibly three vast enough financial groups can be mobilized for the bidding...
...Kennedy's Client. Around 1939 the mail began to thin out, and Downey soon went off the air. He found a spot in Billy Rose's raucous show at the Fort Worth Texas Centennial, and another at Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. His comeback was rapid. He is a confessed millionaire, many of whose investments are under the shrewd thumb of Joseph P. Kennedy, but he has never taken himself too seriously. "Success," Morton Downey says, "has gone to my hips...