Word: cocos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present management took hold in 1923. Chairman of the Board is W. C. Bradley, Columbus, Ga., textile man and banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler. Funeral obsequies will be observed at his late residence, 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue, at 11 in the forenoon on . Interment will be at West View, private. H. M. Patterson...
Chanel. The fame of Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel has waxed since the War. Sweaters have made her name and her fortune, the light, boyish sweaters which form the sports costume of many an American and English woman. The story of Gabrielle is shrouded in mystery. Some say she is of Basque origin, the daughter of a peasant. Others declare her youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful...
Died. Adolphe Valery Coco, 70, one-time (1916-1924) Attorney General of Louisiana, intrepid investigator of the Mer Rouge slayings (1922) involving Ku Klux Klan. It was he who once, unarmed, defended a prisoner from a mob by drawing a line on the ground with his cane and saying: "The first person who crosses that line I kill...
...Smollett," said Hume, "was like a coco-nut, rough outside, but full of human kindness within." This same phrase describes in a nutshell, his works...
...last few years there has been almost an epidemic of temperance-drink companies, following in the highly successful wake of Coco Cola of Atlanta. Once considered local and insignificant concerns, they have sought capital in the Wall Street financial markets. Speculators are now accustomed to buy White Rock on margin or-if they dare-sell Canada Dry Ginger Ale short. Some of those temperance-drink shares have done very well by their holders in this year's stock market. Recently the Welch Grape Juice Co. for the first time since February, 1921, resumed common stock dividends by a payment...