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...Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could get few to take them. His wife Ida will take his place at the cigar stand behind which he once spouted: "Good women don't gamble...
...customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert to the U. S. Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that...
...42nd floor of that famed Insull monument, Chicago's Civic Opera Building. Dressed in cutaway and striped trousers, the white-crested utilitarian was about to take a familiar chair at the head of a long directors' table, carefully laid with pads & pencils. Between puffs on his cigar, Mr. Insull announced that he had nothing to say-"yet." But what he was up to was no secret. At 76, he was getting into radio broadcasting (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week the Insull venture was formally chartered by the State of Illinois as Affiliated Broadcasting Co. with paid-in capital...
Last week Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that anyone may name a cigar after the President, use his picture on the box. Reversing a lower court ruling by which a Milwaukee manufacturer had been enjoined from producing a "Franklin D. Roosevelt" cigar because another firm had got one on the market ahead of him, Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry declared: "The fact that it is in poor taste and shocks our sense of propriety . . . does not make it illegal or unlawful...
...paunchy, red-faced, cigar-sucking Mayor became hoarse from his oration, someone shouted "Take a drink of water...