Word: dorland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view in Dorland Hall in London was a 14-panel mural, painted on wood, entitled A Pageant of Beauty. Mrs. Lewis had paid for it to advertise her cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, with four assistants to do the cultural research and most of the painting, had designed and executed it. Impressed, Soviet Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan Michaelovich Maisky, had asked Mrs. Lewis to exhibit it in Russia where Communist maidens are beginning to take a livelier interest in prettying up. Since Mrs. Lewis has no intention of starting a Moscow Elizabeth Arden Salon, she refused his request...
...made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John Wanamaker Jr. and William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. The young men slept all morning, went to parties in the evening, could not be brought together in one place in the afternoon...
...secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like many another liquor company, Canada Dry had overestimated U. S. liquor consumption, taken a substantial loss on sales through price markdowns...
Died. Crowell Hadden, 89, board chairman of Brooklyn Savings Bank, father of President Howard Hadden of Dorland Advertising Agency (Manhattan), grandfather of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; after a three-week illness, in Brooklyn...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens Hadden, 85, wife of Board Chairman Crowell Hadden of Brooklyn Savings Bank, grandmother of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; of a heart attack; at the Manhattan home of her son, President Howard S. Hadden of Dorland Agency, Inc. (advertising...