Word: mccanns
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Both Mr. Erickson and Mr. McCann have been prominent in the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Mr. Erickson was elected president in 1921, has served since on the executive board. Mr. McCann has been chairman of the Board of the 4A's for the past two years. Harry Dwight Smith, Mr. Erickson's partner for the past three years (before that president & founder of Fuller & Smith), is likewise a onetime president...
...meager merger announcement gave no details-not even the new corporate name or directorate. No information has been forthcoming about the reasons for the merger. But the implications are obvious; McCann gains many valuable accounts including Congoleum-Nairn, Bon Ami, Valspar, Dictaphone, Agfa-Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger...
Both agencies were incorporated in 1911. Mr. Erickson had been running his own agency since 1902. Four of his earliest accounts, Barrett Co., Valspar, Bon Ami and James McCutcheon & Co. are still with him. Mr. McCann had been with Standard Oil, and the Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Ohio, California, Indiana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, together with Stance, Inc. are still among his biggest clients, along with California Packing Corp., Devoe & Raynolds (in part), Canadian National Railways, Zonite, Borden (in part), Beech-Nut, Encyclopedia Britannica and many another...
From Maine farmhouse to Manhattan penthouse has traveled Harrison King McCann, who believes in an "open door" office and encourages his executives to stand on their own feet, think with their own brains. A frequent host, a frequent guest, he sings & plays much and well; likes horses, dogs, hunting, billiards, golf (in which his national handicap was once 8), says with modest mendacity that he does many things, all badly. He has a reverse superstition about the number thirteen, for his company is called the Thirteen Company.* His chief abhorrence is modern...
...There are 13 letters and characters in the company's name, address and slogan: The H. K. McCann Co. 285 Madison Ave. Truth Well Told...