Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week B. B. Benjamin, president of the Jewish Welfare Association of Delhi and Northern India, and onetime Under Secretary of Commerce and Industry in Nehru's government, was looking for ways to ensure "sound education" for his sect. Still more important is a rabbi. "Who can come to...
Mortimer moved on the board in 1950, jumped to executive vice president in 1952. The top job was now in view, but Mortimer got hot competition from two company rivals. Chairman Francis was behind Mortimer, recognized that the company needed a strong merchandising man to lead General Foods into the...
Postum was founded in 1895 by a health-food fan named Charles William Post, who invented Postum and Grape Nuts, one of the first cold cereals, built a thriving business in Battle Creek, Mich, before he died in 1914. Later, under President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who...
Mortimer went to Stevens Institute, but left before graduation. He became a baking-powder salesman for R. B. Davis Co., was made head of sales at 22. His next stop was the Madison Avenue advertising agency of George Batten Co., where he worked on the Sanka account, pulled his weight...
Scramble for the Top. Mortimer took the advertising and marketing route upward at General Foods. He became vice president in charge of advertising in 1939, vice president in charge of marketing in 1947. One of the company's postwar problems was frozen foods. General Foods had carried the burden...