Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive vice president of North American Light & Power; Arthur Andersen, of Arthur Andersen & Co. (certified public accountants) and William Blair Baggaley...
...Henry Ford, automobile maker, comes much publicity. Last week the following Ford items appeared in public prints...
...Colvin & Co. last week surprised fellow brokers by offering to the public stock of Ford companies in Germany, Denmark, France. These foreign Ford shares had been considered almost unobtainable over here. Especially surprising were the German and Danish offerings, since 60% of German Ford is held by Ford Motors Co., Ltd., of England, and nearly all the remainder by I. G. Farbenindustrie. Less than 7% of Danish Ford shares were offered to the public in Denmark and Holland...
When the clans gathered in old Scotland there were always bagpiping contests. At every public meeting the piper played to enliven the audience. In 18th century football matches, each team had its bag- piper who entered the field and played the pibroch during the game to inspirit the players. When the clans broke up the art died down, and for many a year was pursued only by individual musicians...
...Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener with money for the construction of four more Zeppelins...