Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July day in 1883 when its convening members tramped through the flag decked streets of Denver the Grand Army of the Republic was 100,000 strong. Eighteen years out of the Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading...
...American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had ever seen. Shrewdly putting the pressure of its 900,000 ballots on both parties, it was the nation...
Decorations for the Tercentenary Theatre were handled by the University architects, the firm of coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...
...most important factors gained from this work are a firm foundation in sales talk and the overcoming of shyness which so often handicaps a young man at the start of his career. These asserts, however will require a goodly amount of work and originality on the part of the candidate...
...advertisement which lamented the passing of the personal relationship of horse & buggy days between manufacturer and customer, suggested that it might be restored, in part at least, by the proper type of corporate copy. Good basis for N. W. Ayer's reasoning existed in the fact that the firm has handled the most successful institutional campaign ever run in the U. S., that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. So well has this campaign worked that by now most people tend to differentiate between A. T. & T.. the Institution, and the Telephone Company, which sends the bills...