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...This week the State Department made public a list of 106 registrants, mostly innocuous advertising and publicity agents hired for legitimate trade boosting. Examples: Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn (Dunlop Tires), J. Walter Thompson (Guinness Stout), branch offices of European steamship lines. A Manhattan public relations specialist, Hamilton Wright, reported drawing $2,000 a month from Egypt, $1,000 from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered...
...college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used...
...most noteworthy Republican event of the week took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become fascinated by politics since Manhattan's silk stocking district elected him to Congress last year. Said he last week...
...Langdon Burwell -- Miss Joan Osborn, Buffalo, New York...
Grenville Clark, Jr., -- Miss Mary Osborn, Fall River...