Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to an offer of free toothbrushes made by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, acting for Weco Products Co.; the new brushes, offered in a well-bristled combination of scientific research and sales promotion, were Weco's Dr. West...
...with his mother's cook, whom he kept after Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1941 . . . Some of my time was spent mediating between Mrs. Nesbitt and Mary, the cook, who had her own kitchen on the top floor of the White House. When I was away, Miss Thompson took over the job of mediating. One of my daughters-in-law used to worry a great deal about White House food, which she did not consider very good, and as I had never been able to pretend that I knew anything about food, I had to be very humble...
...voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house...
...committee, was picked up in Detroit. Russian-born Irving Potash, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the C.I.O.'s Fur & Leather Workers Union, hustled back from vacation to turn himself in. Still unaccounted for this week: Gilbert Green, the party's leader in Illinois; Robert Thompson, New York State C.P. chairman; Gus Hall, leader of the party's Ohio wing...
Slacks. The I.C.I.E. survey did not try to measure the effectiveness of such house organs. But on that score, one critic last fortnight had some harsh words. Said Dr. Vergil D. Reed, a J. Walter Thompson Co. research executive: many business magazines are poorly edited, misguided publications that exist only because it's fashionable for industry to have them...