Word: mccanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his widow present in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, last week the first posthumous presentation of the gold medal for ''Distinguished Services to Advertising" was made to Alfred William Erickson. Until his death at 60 last November, "Eric" Erickson was chairman of the board, McCann-Erickson Inc., advertising agency; chairman of the board, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., floor coverings; chairman of the executive committee, Technicolor, Inc.; member of the executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis...
...honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each. W. J. Cameron of the Ford program won third radio medal...
From his Barrett association and his advertising activities he went on into Bon Ami, Technicolor, Boorum & Pease Co. But advertising remained his first love. In 1930, having then but his one office in Manhattan, he merged his agency with H. K. McCann Co., giving the new firm seven U. S. and three European offices, adding to the impressive list of Erickson accounts such majors as the Standard Oil group, California Packing, Zonite, Beech...
...whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend of local laws governing "guest claims...
...host for damages unless the host were guilty of gross negligence, drunkenness or willful misconduct. In 1931, to cut down collusion, the gross negligence clause was removed. A guest was denned as a "person who accepts a ride in any vehicle without giving compensation therefor." When the McCann-Hoffman case came to trial year ago, the McCanns claimed that they were not guests of the Hoffmans since they had agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding but admitted that there had been talk of sharing expenses. Nonetheless, the judge ruled...