Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into a blue haze of cigar smoke. Ambassadors called on one another and chatted over tea or whiskey & soda. In munitions factories and arsenals, men in dirty shirts lifted heavy kegs and barrels, piled them together in hundreds, in thousands. And in little towns, in big cities the brass bands played marching songs while the people...
...later Mr. Hearst had allied himself with the powerful Tammany organization and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. On the same ticket he wanted Mr. Smith to run for Senator, and so did Tammany. An overwhelming victory was assured. Chewing stubbornly on his cigar in a Syracuse hotel room the day before the 1922 State Convention, Governor Smith risked political extinction, defied his organization, and said he would not run on the same ticket with the man who had accused him of withholding good milk from the bottles of East Side babies. Tammany wavered...
Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...Last year United Cigar Stores Co. (Charles A. Whelan, president & chairman of directors) and Schulte Stores Corp. (David A. Schulte, president) created Union & United Tobacco Corp. The financing was very involved: the Union & United acquired stock in both the United and the Schulte companies; those two companies took controlling stock of the Union & United company which they had created. The effect of the combination, however, was simple: 5,000 Schulte and United retail stores were made to cooperate instead of let to compete...
...cooperating interests) recently created a subsidiary, Union Tobacco Co., to manufacture tobacco products. The subsidiary Union Tobacco Co. at once leased the factories of the Tobacco Products Co. The principal stockholder of Tobacco Products was George J. Whelan, brother of Charles A. Whelan and a co-founder of United Cigar Stores...