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...cold if you don't apologize. You're not talking to George Luks now, you're talking to 'Chicago Whitey,' the best barroom fighter in America. . . ." When most of the scandalized audience had fled, Artist Luks subsided, laughed, smoked a cigaret and then-for the benefit of a few adoring disciples-painted a skillful little sketch...
...After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary of Agriculture would pay off the adjustment certificates held by the producers. The wheat man, for example, if the market were...
Kentucky burley is used for pipe tobacco and cigaret blending. Wall Street. eyeing the silent war between the big makers of 15? cigarets and the makers of 10? brands, felt sure that the 15-centers were boosting the price (TIME, Sept. 19); high tobacco prices would cut deeply into the slim profit margins on which the 10-centers work but would hardly be felt by the leading 15? companies. Kentuckians did not care much, for they will jingle in their pockets some $25,000,000 more than they did last year, will go to the Derby anyway...
Governor Roosevelt and Secretary Mills, childhood friends, exchanged "Hello, Frank-Hello, Ogden." Professor Raymond Moley, Roosevelt adviser on whose arm the President-elect had been leaning, was introduced. The four men settled themselves in red chairs around a small mahogany table. President Hoover lighted a cigar, Governor Roosevelt a cigaret. Down from their gilt frames gazed Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Grant upon the first White House meeting of a President-reject and a President-elect...
...their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent...