Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with General Motors' President Charles Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
Every good advertising man has enough Irish to know that a pat phrase should be hit hard with a mike. Super-Salesman Chuck Luckman, who has that kind of Irish, and has rounded up the nation's sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...
...Salesman Luckman was heartened by the response to his advertising. Some 1,500 letters a day poured into his Washington headquarters. At first they were evenly divided for & against the program; by last week they had switched to 90% in favor. He noted an even more significant point: the average weight of butchered hogs had dropped from 276 lbs. to 248 lbs.* His next major target was the meat packers. One possibility: asking packers to slap an embargo on overstuffed hogs and cattle (for an estimated saving of 60 million bushels of grain a year...
Meanwhile, the Council's program to back the Luckman conservation plan was in as much of a state of flux as the national program itself. Some committee members felt that meet and policy had been removed from menns to an extent well beyond that needed for conservation purpose...
After spending the war in the Army, he returned to Brown to receive his degree and graduate in 1944. That fall he joined the Chicago Bears and a backfield that included Sid Luckman, Ray McLean, and George McAfee. In his freshman season with the pros Margarita distinguished himself by ranking fourth among the ground gainers. In 1945, the year George Halas returned to the club, he finished in third place...