Word: mccanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, famed onetime (1926-28) Stanford fullback, was driving his wife and their good friends, Mr. & Mrs. John McCann, in the Hoffman car on a weekend outing to Aptos, Calif. He was allegedly speeding down a tree-lined road at 60 m.p.h. when another car popped out at an intersection. They collided. Mrs. McCann was hurled out, suffered brain concussion, severe cuts & bruises...
...news of the month of March, interspersed with brief summary articles in a "snappy" vein, and with astonishingly crude line drawings and maps. Hope for Re-Vue's surviving resided chiefly in its list of financial backers which included William Hale Harkness, President Thomas R. Coward of Coward-McCann, Inc., William Gilman Low III of Charles Scribner's Sons...
Artist Duncan, who lives in San Francisco, is far from unknown to western advertisers. A director of the potent McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, he is a strict office disciplinarian, a busy executive, and though he has finished no commercial drawings for 20 years, he still makes layouts and rough sketches for Del Monte Peaches and Standard Oil of California. For five years he served with Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco Art Commission, has exhibited frequently in West Coast shows...
Three of the six committee members certainly owed allegiance to Standard, which happens to be the biggest single taxpayer in oil-rich Colombia-Director Bedford, Standard's attorney James Henry Hayes and Adman Harrison K. McCann of McCann-Erickson, some 15% of whose business is in Standard Oil accounts. Furthermore, the committee had occupied rent-free quarters in the Standard Oil building at No. 26 Broadway, Manhattan. On the face of it, grumbled Mr. Teagle to Director Bedford, he was forced to agree with a friend of his who remarked that the committee was "pretty well plastered with...
...positions is SEC, and before approving the committee's registration statement for deposit certificates (to be exchanged for Colombian bonds), it wanted to know what would happen if the protection of bondholders required action detrimental to Standard, such as pressing for higher taxes in Colombia. Committeemen Hayes and McCann admitted they would resign before doing anything prejudicial to the big oil company. The fact that the committee was "plastered with 26 Broadway'' seemed largely coincidence, but SEC took the case under advisement...