Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented a façade which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with the sort of 'reality' one has in mind here. . . . Underneath ... is something else-something taut and eager, quickly sensitive; something that boils and struggles in there, that answers and leaps. Touch or pierce that roughneck façade, ever so lightly, and that other something starts...
When Candidate George of Georgia was named and the bands played "Dixie," Candidate Smith hummed the tune, smiling. Then Nominator Roosevelt began. Candidate Smith fingered his watch-chain, bit his cigar, blinked at the ceiling, took out the cigar, stared at the ceiling. The others sat rigid, occasionally stealing looks at him. During the directly personal part, about his "kindly heart" and understanding of "the average man," Candidate Smith looked overheated, troubled...
While makers of Camels, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Old Golds, by means of well-organized advertising campaigns induce customers to demand their brands, Union Tobacco with very little advertising induces cigar store clerks to push its chief cigaret brand, Three Kings (first called Three Castles...
...upon mention of a new $25,000,000 corporation to manufacture and distribute machines which-for a nickel, dime, quarter or slug dropped into a slot-will deliver any one of a thousand commodities, from candy to cathartics. Three drug store chains (Liggett, Owl, Walgreen), Happiness Candy Stores, United Cigar, Schulte, Union News, McCrory, Woolworth, Penney, Metropolitan and Grant stores will thus dispense part of their wares, and as smartly as their clerks the machines will cry out "Thank you" to the customers. They will also say "Corked tips protect the lips," or some such message appropriate to the merchandise...
...name of the new corporation is Consolidated Merchandising Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...