Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this corner: Martin Dies of Texas, with his big cigar and $100,000. In that corner: Reds, Fascists, Bundsmen...
...headquarters and that was the funeral of one of the richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped, mean, noxious, cigar-smoking German Jew, one of whose mistresses had a gold bathtub and who, after 20 years in The Netherlands, could not speak enough Dutch to boss his own chauffeur. His name was Dr. Fritz Mannheimer...
...Senate, and William Edgar Borah, the Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever owlish, Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner was also there...
...Garner cigar had stopped revolving. The Garner grin was on. His precise words may appear some day in his memoirs. Commonest version reported last week was that, eying the President, the Vice President said...
Died. Milton Herman Esberg, 64, tobacco tycoon (General Cigar Co.) and music lover, who boosted the San Francisco Opera Association to success; of heart disease; in San Francisco...