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When they were not having fun, the delegates to the convention were indulging in busy conclaves. Steelmen, druggists, Zionists and Rotarians, when they hold such sessions, are prone to be strident in praise of themselves, their ideals, the progress they have made and their importance to the well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world...
According to the U. S. interpretation, the combine (including the U. S. and Bethlehem Steel Corps.) was to be organized under the provisions of the Export Trade Act to prevent competitive price-cutting between U. S. steelmen in European markets. Through consolidation of foreign offices, elimination of duplicate staffs, considerable economies might be effected. Thus the U. S. would be in a better position to compete with the rejuvenated German steel industry. (TIME, July...
This spring, Supersalesman Farrell, president of the corporation, went to Europe. Ostensibly, so far as financial writers could discover, he had no more subtle purpose than to "observe conditions." U. S. steelmen had been alarmed by the vigorous recovery of the German mills, which were threatening severe competition with U. S. industry. It was, therefore, no great surprise when the cryptic announcement of the export combine closely followed Mr. Farrell's return. The combine appeared as a typical Farrellian stroke in the campaign to develop the foreign market...
...Squadron A Armory, Manhattan, last week resorted horsemen, steelmen, chewing-gum men, debutantes, dowagers, adventurers, grooms ? they went there because it was the scene of the 39th annual show of the Horse Association of America, they went there to look upon some thoroughbreds...