Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning of the early '90s tenants of the new Pulitzer Building in Manhattan noted a new face at the small cigar stand that crouched between two pillars of the lobby. They noted too that their cigars that morning had a softer feel, a fresher tang. David A. Schulte had begun business for himself and already was anticipating the contentment of his customers. They ought to appreciate fresh smokes, he had reasoned, and quick service and low prices. They did. Now D. A. Schulte Inc.'s retail stores number 300, many of them at locations he himself picked years...
During the same year Schulte retail stores sold $35,000,000 of goods. It would be fine, many an ambitious corporation promoter thought, if these two eminently successful selling organizations were merged. The idea is not new. Five years ago it was presented to Charles A. Whelan and David A. Schulte. Astute men both, they had long known the economies of a merger. But neither would yield the identity of his business. When the proposition was laid before David A. Schulte that he sell out to United Cigars Stores, he replied, in effect, "I'll buy out myself, United Cigar...
Union & United Tobacco will make tobacco products and will distribute them wholesalees and to Schulte retail stores. The two retail chains own their common manufacturer-wholesaler (Union & United Tobacco). As retailers they continue separate. David A. Schulte and Charles A. Whelan remain at the head of corporations their selling geniuses created. There is no merger, just sensible cooperation...
...David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...
...David Beatty, Earl of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet (British), First Sea Lord: "As I dined in state with many a guest, last week, at my estate, the Priory, Reigate, England, the roof caught fire. I, the hero of Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...