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Businessman Politician. New Jersey's Republicans had their closest primary ever. By noon next day Albert Wahl Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, knew that his party had chosen him for U.S. Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter...
...industry-Walter Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil; Roger Lapham, chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co.; Albert W. Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn; Edward J. McMillan, president of Standard Knitting Mills...
...Waldorf-Astoria, last week the first posthumous presentation of the gold medal for ''Distinguished Services to Advertising" was made to Alfred William Erickson. Until his death at 60 last November, "Eric" Erickson was chairman of the board, McCann-Erickson Inc., advertising agency; chairman of the board, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., floor coverings; chairman of the executive committee, Technicolor, Inc.; member of the executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis upon which modern advertising agencies operate...
...idea of painting the material and using it for floor covering. Erickson was enthusiastic but unable to persuade his fellow board members to boom Congo with advertising. They suggested that if he believed it was so good, he should buy the company. That he did, and the renamed product, Congoleum, was Erickson's first big killing. In 1924 he merged his company with Nairn Co. (cork, linoleums...
Died. Alfred William Erickson, 60, Manhattan adman (McCann-Erickson), one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, board chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. (linoleum); of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...