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...five years, that one of his stores, fighting the devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit or none at all." Should this 11? policy be followed at all Schulte stores it might well be imitated by the United Cigar Stores (allied with Schulte through the Union & United Tobacco Corp.). President Schulte blamed the A & P stores for the general price cutting situation...
...high of 67½, has had a 1929 low of 23⅜, was selling last week at around 24. The 1928 earnings were $3.96 a share compared to $4.91 in 1927. Angry, Mr. Schulte threatened to put lunch counters and "novelty" merchandise in his stores, thus (like United Cigar with its Happiness Candy alliance), to alleviate cigaret competition by adding non-tobacco merchandise...
...then the smell of stale cigar smoke disturbs the quiet atmosphere of America's most antique daily in an incongruous fashion. Many a college graduate of the mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals...
Cornered by Conservative and Laborite journalists in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George calmly pruned a pale cigar while listening amiably to many a following sarcastic question...
...Senate lobby, put his silk hat down on the green felt table top, sat down in an arm chair, signed many bills. His Cabinet stood about him, eager to be of last-minute assistance. When he had finished he motioned shut the ponderous doors and lighted a cigar...