Word: cigaret
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...would-be donors. Fifty thousand were sent back at the time of popular Princess Mary's marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Exceptions are made for reasons of State and publicity. Thus the official list of wedding gifts accepted by King George's parents includes: "from ten newsboys, a cigaret-holder; from three bus-drivers, a pipe ; from five hansom-cab drivers, a whip...
Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder, he is reputed to glower terrifyingly at any office caller who dares pull out any other cigaret than Camels...
...Hope diamond with her. In fact she was at that very moment wearing it around her neck. She was also wearing four diamond bracelets on her right wrist, four more on her left, a handful of solitaire rings, and she carried a diamond-chained handbag and a diamond-studded cigaret case. She had just been to Russia, she said, to give Moscow a thrill...