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Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Among Frenchmen the familiar U. S. paradox of a rich man "dry as a matter of business" but socially wringing wet is significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dry World? | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...bottle of cognac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Mix | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...linked with M. Cognacq's name is the differently spelled Cognac, the name ol a town in southwestern France where potable, exhilarating cognac is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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