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Into Wilkes-Barre, Pa. parcel-post boxes one evening last week were dumped six cigar boxes, neatly wrapped in white paper. Each was labeled "Sample" and addressed to a local citizen...
...Bennett, you can't leave with those," roared Lawyer Powers, his cigar still clenched in his teeth. As he lunged for the boxes of proxies, the rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...
Attention was diverted at this point by a stenographer who was quietly emptying all the spittoons on a pink plush chair. During the scuffle the chair had been set afire by a cigar ember...
Gifford: That may be the only way you can make the acquaintance of legislators. I might give a man a cigar. I think it's a matter of degree...
...lists. In theory, all customers have paid the same price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice, Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. made a bold move... Opening its books for second-quarter business, the No. 3 steel company of the 'land issued price lists with fixed discounts for quantity orders ranging from $1 per ton on lots...