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Already the Press was speculating on whom the President would pick to succeed Mr. Howe as his No. 1 secretary when one morning the gaunt little patient awoke, looked about him, asked for a cigaret. Hastily five doctors were called into consultation, gravely decided that the crisis was past. Although the "ultimate prognosis was not good," Mr. Howe was on the mend. Hastily the President's bags were packed and the same evening he entrained for Florida feeling happier about his faithful Louis Howe than he had in days...
...well-founded conviction of Suffolk's Mayor Otis S. Smith who told newshawks of his latest adventure. On a trip to Manhattan, Mayor Smith went one evening to see his old schoolmate James Bell in Tobacco Road. Between acts he stepped into a restaurant to buy cigarets. The master of ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States." Resorting to a defense which he perfected to rebuff...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House...
...Cigaret Maker Williams announced that he was quitting not only to return to "business connections that I regularly carry," but also to be free as a private citizen to answer any call to appear at the Finance Committee's NRA inquiry. These motives of Cigaret Maker Williams, Cigar Unionist Ornburn picked up and made the worst...
Each of the 250,000 Hupmobile owners in the U. S. will be asked to send to the company the names of at least four prospective Hupmobile buyers. "We acknowledge this service with a trifling gift-a flameless cigaret lighter" (presumably Mr. Andrews' own Elektrolite). The suggested names are turned over to the Hupp sales organization, which will then try some "modified high-pressure." If one of the suggested prospects actually buys a Hupmobile, the person who sent in the name will receive a commission of $20 by going on the Hupp payroll at $5 a week...