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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most spectacular pool operators of Wall Street's New Era was tense, redheaded Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, onetime theatre ticket agent. Same week in 1935 that SEC started to drive him off the Exchange on charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130,000 seat for his son William as a 21st birthday present. Last week the Exchange announced that a seat had been sold for $60,000 to Mike Meehan's youngest son, Joseph, 21, a senior at Fordham University. If the sale is approved, Joseph Meehan will become the Exchange's youngest...
...less publicized public relations problem which Johns-Manville has solved is the fact that it is a "Morgan Company." Twelve years ago when the Manvilles sold control to J. P. Morgan, J-M's employes felt they had been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example...
...fact, Johns-Manville was the outstanding public relations success of 1938. And the man chiefly responsible is its 45-year-old president, big, handsome Lewis Herold Brown. Last week, at a luncheon celebrating his tenth year as president, the J-M Officers Board (a management group as opposed to the ownership group which forms the board of directors) gave him a gift symbolizing his success in building up J-M esprit de corps-a gold locket containing pictures of his associates. Three days later at the annual stockholders' meeting J-M owners added their stamp of unanimous approval...
...first great exponent of its arts was the late Ivy Lee, the man who transformed John D. Rockefeller's reputation from that of the most hated man of his day to that of the "great benefactor." Ivy Lee's firm, now under the direction of sober Thomas J. Ross, still has the Rockefellers, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chrysler Corp. and other industrial giants as clients. More spectacularly successful today are such younger rivals as Edward L. Bernays (Procter & Gamble, Allied Chemical & Dye), Carl Byoir (A. & P., Goodrich, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Steve Hannagan (Miami Beach, Union Pacific), Benjamin Sonnenberg...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...