Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...
Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year...
...Wings had slowed the decline in national cigaret production which had been going on all year. Wings did not advertise in newspapers, but blurbs on the cheap brown paper package told smokers that they could not smoke Cellophane. In June arrived the fourth national 10? cigaret- Twenty Grand, also from Louisville. Its sales soon passed those of White Rolls and Paul Jones, ran the ten-centers percentage up to 15. Last week that percentage was 20. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. was making 18 million Twenty Grands a day, with unfilled orders piled high. Wings were rolling out of the machines...
Revenge. Most colorful of the 10?-cigaret men are President Reed of Larus & Brother (White Rolls) and Woodford Fitch Axton, burly president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. (Twenty Grand). Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents...