For advertising against U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964, he became one of the original twenty people mentioned on Nixon's Enemies List.
Subsequently, he worked as advertising and promotion manager at Look magazine, where he met James "Ned" Doyle.
In 1941, Dane began work as advertising promotion manager for the New York radio station, WMCA.
When DDB, then considered a firm handling predominantly Democratic candidates during political campaigns, produced the 1964 television commercial Daisy in support of Lyndon Johnson's Presidential campaign, Dane was added to Nixon's Enemies List with the remark: The top Democratic advertising firm—they destroyed Goldwater in 1964.
They should be hit hard starting with Dane.At DDB, Dane oversaw finance and public relations functions, later becoming the chairman of the executive committee, secretary, and treasurer of the corporation.