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...Among the gifts received by the President were innumerable turkeys; a 22-pound, home-cured ham from Governor Gore of West Virginia; more than a dozen canes, which the President does not use; cigars by the hundreds, some of which he will smoke; cigar holders, intended to displace the paper holders which he uses...
...gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into...
...exhibition at the Milch Galleries, in New York, of the paintings of one Thomas Monan, a man who sat down at 9 o'clock every morning for some forty years with a black cigar in his mouth, to paint pictures for the Sauta Fe railroad, and whose work is as full of life and energy today as it is empty of form or grace...
...morning of the early '90s tenants of the new Pulitzer Building in Manhattan noted a new face at the small cigar stand that crouched between two pillars of the lobby. They noted too that their cigars that morning had a softer feel, a fresher tang. David A. Schulte had begun business for himself and already was anticipating the contentment of his customers. They ought to appreciate fresh smokes, he had reasoned, and quick service and low prices. They did. Now D. A. Schulte Inc.'s retail stores number 300, many of them at locations he himself picked years...
...years ago it was presented to Charles A. Whelan and David A. Schulte. Astute men both, they had long known the economies of a merger. But neither would yield the identity of his business. When the proposition was laid before David A. Schulte that he sell out to United Cigars Stores, he replied, in effect, "I'll buy out myself, United Cigar Stores, if they will sell." That meant stalemate. Nor have subsequent merger negotiations come to anything...