Who said, “All I have I owe to advertising”?
It was late 19th-century cold cereal developer C. W. Post, whose creations included Grape-Nuts who said, “All I have I owe to advertising”.
John Adams (1735-1826), the second president, was the first president defeated for reelection in 1801. Thomas Jefferson defeated him and served two terms, from 1801 to 1809.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said the line, in the essay “Self-Reliance” (1841). The complete quote is, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
The first installment plan in American business was introduced by Isaac Singer’s partner Edward Clark in 1856. Customers could buy a sewing machine for five dollars down, paying the rest in monthly installments of three to five dollars, including interest. Singer was criticized for charging high interest, but the company’s sales took off. In 1857,…
Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride in an automobile to his inauguration, on March 4, 1921.
Calvin L. Graham (1930-92), born in Canton, Texas, was the boy who lied about his age so he could enlist in the U.S. Navy at age 12 during World War II. Wounded by shrapnel during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, he helped pull other crew members to safety. When the Navy discovered his age…
On October 29, 1929, the date of the worst crash in Wall Street history, over 16 million shares of stock were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That day, $8-9 billion in paper value was lost.