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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...
...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...