Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...circulation, Weekly Illustrated, Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life, is the firm's financial spearhead. His wealth is impossible to gauge for he never publishes a financial statement. Odhams ranks so high, however, that when Elias put out a big bond issue last year is was oversubscribed in five minutes...
Explained Dean Russell: "I am a firm believer in retirement at the age of 65 and I intend to retire at that age or earlier...
From his Barrett association and his advertising activities he went on into Bon Ami, Technicolor, Boorum & Pease Co. But advertising remained his first love. In 1930, having then but his one office in Manhattan, he merged his agency with H. K. McCann Co., giving the new firm seven U. S. and three European offices, adding to the impressive list of Erickson accounts such majors as the Standard Oil group, California Packing, Zonite, Beech...
...negatively. It will not be the instrument of a group, a tendency, or a concocted tradition. Its qualities will be determined by the Intelligence and talents of the undergraduates. The present issue reflects this policy. The writers give the impression of moving only so far as the ground seems firm under foot. And though there are few "flashes of light and anger," of passion and oracularity, there is also a healthy freedom from captiousness snobbery and the gloomy shade of Eugene Jolas...