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...Ames Brown, handsome Southern newsman, resigned as president of the advertising house of Lord 6 Thomas and Logan, Inc. (American Tobacco. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, California Fruit Growers Exchange, General Electric). Succeeding Mr. Brown is another Wartime U. S. Ship ping Board protege of Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. and L.'s board chairman: Ralph V. Sollitt. Tactful Advertiser Sollitt is Indiana-born. He has been teacher, lawyer, banker. Under Wrill H. Hays he helped elect Warren Gamaliel Harding President. In 1924 at Mr. Lasker's urging he went to Chicago with L. & T. and L. He gathered...
First floral offering to be delivered to Col. Knox was a large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled...
Last Saturday morning the Foreman officers realized the frozen condition of many of their real estate loans had impaired the banks' liquidity, that disaster was near. The directors, including Albert Davis Lasker, William Wrigley Jr., John Daniel Hertz, and members of the Foreman family, raised sufficient funds to tide the bank through the day. An appeal was then made to other Chicago bankers...
...sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note to Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck, on the Tribune's bulletin board...
Certain sportive Chicago financiers have lately been amusing themselves by trying to circulate fantastic rumors. One story possibly attributable to such a source: that Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...