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Died. George J. Wise, 57, founder with his brothers Edward and Albert of the tobacco business which became United Cigar Stores Co. of America; suddenly, in Providence...
...Suit What may be a $10,000,000 special profit for Gillette, but what would not be counted as earnings, was sought last week. Gillette sued United Cigar Stores for $10,000,000 damages, charging that in 1927 the two firms entered into a ten-year contract by which United was to retail Gillette products, but in which United misrepresented facts. The facts concerned the number of razors and blades United is able to sell. United at the time was under the management of the Whelan Brothers, bought out in 1929 by the Brothers Morrow...
Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
...great one recalled other excursions with the Green Dragon. . . . He gnawed his cigar stub meditatively...
...Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...