Word: firmly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Much of this confusion resulted from lack of firm party direction. Governor Foster Furcolo spent the spring preparing for his hypothesized Senatorial battle against Leverett Saltonstall, and did not use his political influence effectively at the nomination convention. Memories of a 1958 split in the Democratic Party were exacerbated by the 1960 convention, memories that Furcolo did not mollify...
...hopes to renew his old U.S. ties, some of which were rudely severed by the Kefauver crime committee in the 1951 hearings that propelled some of his old City Hall cronies to jail for long terms. Ex-Expatriate O'Dwyer remains a partner in a U.S.-Mexican law firm, hopes to set up a public-relations outfit and plunge into some U.S.-Latin American business ventures...
...Allstate's Chicago branch, opened with an all-out advertising barrage last spring, was also ordered closed last week for operating without a city license. The firm has no connection with Allstate Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck...
Taking the debatable position that Khrushchev should not have appeared on the show at all, the Wall Street brokerage firm, Sutro Bros. & Co., a longtime sponsor of Open End, canceled its commitments to the show. Susskind's final muddled reaction to Khrushchev: "The guy is one part Santa Claus, one part doctrinaire, one part demeaning uncle." Khrushchev's reaction to Susskind: "You have good eyes. I could negotiate with...
NOTHING gave Maidenform a better uplift than the launching of its famous "I dreamed" campaign in 1949. Dreamed up by a woman copywriter for a Manhattan ad firm (now Norman, Craig & Kummel), the ad drew little enthusiasm at first, even from Ida Rosenthal. It soon caught fire, despite protests that it was risque. "We love double meanings," says Beatrice Coleman, Mrs. Rosenthal's daughter and the firm's chief designer, "so long as the double meaning is decent." Maidenform now spends 10% of its sales on advertising, mostly on the "I dreamed" ads. "Let them go on dreaming...