Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors' meetings. Others: Thomas W. Lamont, 62 (who succeeded on Mr. Davi-son's death in 1922 to the greatest reputation in the firm); and three much older men: Charles Steele, a venerable lawyer of the early "trust" forming days; Philadelphia's Edward T. Stotesbury, a drummer boy in the Civil War whom the present generation recollects as a socialite yachtsman; and Horatio G. Lloyd who leads a homey life in recent years, has specialized as Welfare Commissioner of Philadelphia and treasurer of Quakerish Haverford at a salary of $1 a year...
...Traveling salesmen everywhere were hard put, some of them hitchhiking when they could not buy railroad tickets. In Manhattan, a smart Rochester shoe drummer raised enough cash to get home by selling samples in a hotel lobby...
...Winthrop was unable to break through the Lowell defense to score more than one basket. The Lowell forwards, meanwhile sank shots almost at will. The summary: LOWELL WINTHROP Bernstein, Pringle, r.f. l.f., Dutton Woodard, Richman, l.f. r.f., Lloyd Graf, Taylor, c. c., Bryan Howard, Wells, r.g. l.g., Ripley Drummer, Salls, l.g. r.g., England, Wells...
This investment, made a dozen years ago, cost Drug $10,000,000. Since then steady Boots dividends have gone to Drug. But Druggist Liggett, onetime patent medicine drummer, has never interfered much with Boots management, although he has encouraged it to sell picture frames, stationery, leather goods and other nonpharmaceutical lines. Boots management has remained an English management headed by John Campbell Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham...
...Thanks," he said as the clerk handed over the money. To a big-city friend the drummer said, as they strolled out of the lobby: "I had that hick all hot & bothered, keeping this $100 bill for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the bill to light a cigar...