Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandchildren and most of the 16 living and their various in-laws like to have a hand in running the huge Santiago distillery. As soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, once its dryish directors were converted to the liquor business, went after Bacardi. The Canada Dry executive who handled the regulations left to build up a liquor business for the Schulte interests. Soon he was trying to get Bacardi for Park & Tilford. Schenley Distillers went after Bacardi; so did National...
Many an advertiser has kicked out his agency, but few agencies have ever kicked out a good advertiser. Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled...
...first government chauffeur. She usually wears her hat in the office. Her secretary is an efficient, rather bossy person named Frances Jurkowitz-"Miss Jay" to all-one of whose first duties is to ensure her superior as much privacy as possible. Madam Secretary used to serve ginger ale out of her own pocket at press conferences but stopped it when someone remarked that the Government paid for the paper cups. She uses no powder, no rouge, no perfume, dresses mostly in severe blacks and dark browns. Her eyes are dark and brilliant. She has shapely white hands that flutter expressively...
...fine times. They were stood in schoolhouse corners together and together they hunted rabbits on the downs, puffins', petrels', and gulls' nests on the cliffs. At Halloween they snared thrushes for a midnight roast, and once at Ventry, on the mainland, they got tipsy on ale and tobacco, gave a sharper a beating and watched great brawny Tigue...
...enlisted the aid of his daughter in gaining the ear of her younger son, Gary William. Gary, who resembles his big brother in quiet charm, mild humor and Dutch stubbornness, has followed him to Williams, into Deke and Gargoyle. He shared his brother's fondness for beer & ale and baseball, and he pitched on the varsity...