Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover, suspended publication last week after eight rocky months in business. At one time it exceeded 100,000 readers. President William E. Wheeler, a high-powered Manhattan adman, thought he had found new support when suddenly the New York State Bureau of Securities descended on him for permitting the sale of New York Woman stock within two weeks of the magazine's coma. Publisher Wheeler, who had asked permission to reorganize under Section 776 of the National Bankruptcy Act, indignantly maintained that his prospectus had told all, prepared to fight the State's charge in court...
Most of Coronation Commentary was written by November 1936. Two chapters, on the Abdication and the Coronation of George VI. were added later. When the book went on sale last week Book Society officials saw that they had approved the following remarks...
...proceedings merited a national hearing. Art-lovers listening in heard the voice of a commentator but little else, because bids were indicated by a flick of an eyebrow or pencil, and also because the announcer was enclosed in a soundproof booth. At the end of three days, the sale's returns stood...
...establish rigorous routine, he wears black ties year round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville store by exposing its sale of shoddy blankets to flood sufferers; drove loan sharks out of Nashville by publicity last year. While not endorsing Landon, the Banner in last year's election was quite evidently not New Deal...
Finally Mr. Ball decided it was time to pass out a brief statement: "George A. Ball today announces the sale by the George & Frances Ball Foundation to Robert R. Young of New York, Allan P. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frank F. Kolbe of New York, of its Alleghany Corp. securities held by Midamerica Corp. and its interest in the Cleveland real estate. . . . He is impressed with the sense of public responsibility possessed by these gentlemen...