Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the swank Manhattan house of Knoedler & Co. proudly announced the acquisition of the Thomas B. Clarke collection of early U. S. portraits. The sale price was around $1,000,000. In Knoedler's de luxe parlors, the occasion was comparable in excitement to the purchase by that firm two years ago for Andrew William Mellon of Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba, from the Soviet Government's Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
...exploiting the beauties of maternity and Nestlé's food in the manner of famed Old Masters. Weeks passed, but no further parodies appeared in L'lllustration. Last week U. S. admen, whose reputation for blatancy is supposedly worldwide, had the full story of how a French firm had been obliged to backtrack on a super-blatant advertising campaign...
...bright young businessman who would not like to get control of a good little company, manufacture a good product, sell it under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas Harry Banfield and the late Cyrus Jury Parker, partners in a Portland, Ore. construction firm that they founded in 1909 with $700 cash. They did not discover their product until 1923, when they bought a local iron works as an adjunct to their contracting...
Politics is a slower game than Monopoly, requires more skill. It was invented by Oswald ("Oz") Lord, a tall, gangling Manhattan Yaleman (Class of 1926) who holds down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...
...sufficiently applied to demonstrate tangible merit. Contemporary holders, many sources agree, have already contributed much to the college. The crucial test, of course, will be years hence when after-college records can be scrutinized with a critical eye. Meanwhile, whole-hearted support is due the program, because it has firm foundations in theory and in fact...