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...Boston's Hotel Statler last week enigmatic little Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli, about to address the twelfth annual Boston Conference on Distribution, arched her back. "That man," she hissed, "tell him to stop smoking that cigar! The timbre of my voice-I shall not be able to speak." Tiptoeing up to the offending guest, flustered hosts persuaded trust-busting Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold to quash his stogie...
Nash's chief is fat, cigar-smoking, trout-loving George Walter Mason, who headed the fast-stepping Kelvinator Corp. before it merged with Nash in 1937. He has his own ideas about prices. On Jan. 10, 1940 he blew the lid off the complacent electric-refrigerator industry by slashing "stripped" boxes $30 to $40 a unit to a record low level of $119.95. Pleased by results (Kelvinator sales up 125% to new record, industry up 35%), Mason is applying similar tactics to the auto industry this year...
Back in Washington, Texas Jack comported himself as if he had never been away. Clamping his teeth on an unlighted cigar, he shook a few limp hands, slapped a few backs, announced heartily: "Just feel my arms, feel those muscles in my legs. Boys, I'm hard as nails." One of the first things he asked was why Congress did not adjourn...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre...
This was one Roosevelt measure which Republican Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir welcomed. He even thought it overdue. Moving his never-lit cigar from mouth to desk, he glowered: "It is too bad that the Administration did not see fit to heed the repeated warnings of businessmen against the continuous, large-scale exportation of scrap. . . . Even now, since the embargo is not effective until Oct. 16, exportations can continue for more than two weeks. With scrap-steel stocks already so badly depleted, I can see no justification for the delay...