Word: cognac
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Schieffelin & Co., who have been liquor merchants for 139 years, lately obtained the agency for Hennessy ("* * *") brandies and Teacher's Scotch whiskey ( Highland Cream ). Both James Hennessy & Co. of Cognac, France and Schieffelin & Co. of Manhattan are under the management of the sixth generation in direct descent of their respective founders...
Methods of hedging against Inflation within U. S. frontiers have become a favorite coffee-&-cognac topic. Purchase of industrial stocks is, of course, the most popular hedge, but commodities and land have been creeping up fast since the NRA threatened profits with higher labor costs. Some shrewd businessmen with little capital at stake argue that the best thing is to go as deep into debt as the banks (or friends) will allow; eventually they will pay off with cheaper dollars. Carl Sriyder, economist for the Federal Reserve Board, was asked lately by a wealthy friend how he could hedge against...
French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac's dignified, art collecting Senator James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days...
Flush with champagne & cognac, as he always is at the close of a dinner, President Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
...against my idea of committing the crime. I prayed, even on the train. When I reached Paris I went to pray at Notre Dame. I begged God to rid me of this obsession. My struggle with myself lasted for two whole days. Then I drank an entire bottle of cognac. I was too intoxicated to remember what...