Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Election Issue of TIME (Nov. 13) has just arrived, and I, being a firm believer in Mr. Dewey and one among the 21-some million who believed he should have been in the White House next year, am a bit piqued that you are such a reactionary paper that you cannot print any of the news on Dewey's reaction to this campaign before and after...
...over the city. On them was this legend: "Congratulations on a job well done-Hart Schaffner & Marx." A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris. But who had scored this advertising scoop for the big U.S. clothing firm no one seemed able...
...Paris in mid-September. In all innocence he had called on a Paris adman named Pierre Elvinger. To him, Reasoner delivered an apparently innocuous message which Reasoner had received in a letter from his brother-in-law J. David Danforth, an executive with Manhattan's high-powered advertising firm, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne Inc. The message: Elvinger was expected "to do a good...
...remark that Japan is "an aggressor nation." Said the official Japanese Domei agency: The Japanese people were "surprised and offended." It added: "The Soviet Nation is a realistic country, so in all probability her foreign policy vis-à-vis her neighbor is not wholly immutable. . . . Consequently, it is the firm belief of the Japanese general public that Japan must also adopt a realistic policy that will conform with any new situation created by the Russians." What Japan feared was that Russia would sooner or later make...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands was published by Jarrolds in England in 1940, shortly before Jarrolds was bombed out in the blitz. It was the first novel of 37-year-old Gerald Butler, a onetime chemist who is now director of an advertising firm, and it sold 232,000 copies. He has since written three more novels...