Word: drugman
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...Rudolph Walgreen runs the largest chain of drug stores in the U. S. and prizes the few hours a day he can spare with his family. Each morning in the ivory-colored dining room of his Chicago apartment, overlooking Lake Michigan and the South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went East...
...Drugman Walgreen took pains to send a copy to each of the University's 30 trustees. Soon it got into the hands of newshawks. Chicago's Press gave it great headlines. President Hutchins made more news by asking Mr. Walgreen for evidence. Mr. Walgreen made still more news by demanding a public meeting of the trustees to hear the evidence. Angrily President Hutchins refused to give him a field...
...although it is represented in 191 cities. The directorate over which he presides includes James Bruce, president of Baltimore Trust Co. and brother of David K. Este Bruce, Secretary Mellon's son-in-law; Waddill Catchings; Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes; Banker David R. Forgan of Chicago; Drugman Louis K. Liggett of Boston; Howard LaVerne Wynegar, president of the company. Last week quiet President Wynegar saw no reason why the instalment business should not continue prosperous...
...with Secretary Mellon while Under-Secretary Ogden Livingston Mills entertained Vice President and Mrs. Dawes. Two evenings later the Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and their wives, and twoscore other guests, drove to the White House to dine. Among the twoscore were Railroader Daniel Willard. Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett, Oilman Clay Arthur Pierce (who tendered his late father's fishing lodge at Brule, Wis., for Summer White House last year), and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. It was by no means the first time the Fords had visited the White House but Mr. Ford made...