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...from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down for 10? per oz. in Chicago (see cut p. 12) had never heard of John L. Lewis, replied to questioners...
...career of cigar-smoking, 42-year-old Irving Mills began on Manhattan's East Side. As a youth he was a page at the vaudevillians' Friars Club, of which he is now a member. Young Irving got into song-plugging, went on into shoestring music publishing with his brother Jack...
...Palestine, Greece, Poland, but the principal focus is on Chicago and "the bunch'' as they grew up there. "The bunch," high-school age in 1921, were second-generation Russian Jews. Few of their immigrant fathers were well off; most of them were buttonhole makers, shoemakers, pawnbrokers, barbers, cigar-makers. Most of the mothers still spoke Yiddish...
Sales of drugs comprise 55% of Walgreen Co. business, but drugs to Walgreen mean not only prescriptions and patent medicines but all of more than 13,000 items not sold at cigar counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always...
Irked when a naval officer danced up to him in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove and abused first his cigar, then his character, Band Leader Benjamin Anzelvitz (Ben Bernie) dropped to the dance floor, knocked out his tormentor...