Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath the house were labyrinthine tunnels where boatloads of liquor could be stored. On the roof was a lookout post and a searchlight for flashing messages out to sea. Conveniently placed was a well-stocked arsenal. Warlike trenches...
...inspiration to young boys has long been the story of David Schulte, clerk in a small tobacco shop near Brooklyn Bridge, who rose to be head of the second largest U. S. chain of cigar stores, then entered into real estate and merchandising deals that involved millions. Many a feature article has described quick-speaking, efficient, firm-jawed Mr. Schulte who took no vacation for 24 years and said his only hobbies were "business and family." Although of late Mr. Schulte has taken many vacations to Palm Beach, and learned to play games, his name has remained a symbol...
Whereas last year Schulte Retail Stores formed an alliance with the United Cigar Stores, seemed impregnable, this year cigaret price-cutting slashed into the profits. A report in April disclosed that of seven directors David A. Schulte held 33,000 shares of common stock, Joseph M. Schulte 202, another director 10, the remaining four none. On May 1 the dividend was passed...
...Brooklyn, Herman Hintz, 63, school janitor, struck a match to light a cigar, ignited his celluloid collar, burned to death...
...explanation of the end of the $6 cigaret price was that leaf tobacco is more expensive this year. Another suggestion is that the move was originated by the Brothers George Kenan and Frederick Morrow who recently entered the tobacco industry (TIME, Sept. 2) by acquiring control of the United Cigar Stores of America, the Tobacco Products Co. and the Union Tobacco Co. While the Morrows are not identified with the large manufacturers, their position in the distributing end could make their influence mighty. If the raise in the wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price...