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Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...
Vice President Thomas Marshall's mot: "What this country needs is a good 5? cigar." Said Professor Clendening, visiting in Manhattan: "What this country needs is a good 5? drink of whiskey...
Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson came from Arkansas to stump for Candidate Johnson, flay the Farm Board, the Tariff. Cigar-gnawing onetime Senator James Reed of Missouri helped too. Outcome of the race in this usually Democratic district was not unexpected, but the vote divided surprisingly. Normally Democratic by 3,500 to 1,500 votes, the 7th gave Candidate Johnson, even though the ticket was split, the whopping majority of 8,990. The Johnson victory brought the total number of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives to 214, tied the Republicans, put the theoretical balance of power once more...
...that he never smiles, is an excellent marksman with his pistol. A student of criminology, he is brainier than most policemen. No less honest, if not so brainy, is his chief aide. Captain Shoemaker. Students of Chicago crime predicted that Commissioner Allman would not attempt to eliminate beer saloons, cigar store bookmakers, or other small grafters, but would concentrate on organized crime, make the city safe for the 1933 World's Fair. Commissioner Allman would make no predictions...
Lids Toro, president of Porto American Tobacco Co. since it was founded in 1899, resigned, also resigned as chairman of the company's two big subsidiaries, Congress Cigar Co. Inc. and Waitt & Bond, Inc. President James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...