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...farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar. In 1911, at the age of 56, he died in Paris...
...Hampstead, Ramsay MacDonald considered himself already in power, spent the weekend picking a tentative Cabinet. Puffing happily on a cigar, his first smoke since he began campaigning early last month, he said: "The results are magnificent, but not surprising. The government has lost the confidence of the country and Labor...
...will not give any money to any church the pastor of which indulges in tobacco. Yet no fanatic is Mr. Kresge. Offered a drink, offered a cigar, he refuses, but politely...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Steven W. Marshall swallowed a cigar butt, choked, died...
Young businesswomen who needed only 7,000 more cigar-store coupons to get the percolator for the apartment last week fell victims to the price war that has for some months been agitating the tobacco business. Last week's developments: 1) Schulte and United Cigar stores offered 15? cigarets at two packs for a quarter-but no more coupons. Cartons of ten packages, $1.20. 2) The Atlantic & Pacific and the Liggett stores (whose longstanding price cutting on cigarets is chiefly responsible for the present troubles) met the United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would...