Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great personal magnetism-the kind that makes female hearts beat fast at every concert, although his matronly-looking wife is always present, sitting well back on the right. Surest sign of his Boston success is the fact that he has been admitted to the Somerset Club, a Beacon Hill institution so exclusive that little Brahmins are usually registered for it immediately after birth...
Camel-Lucky. Readers of U. S. cigaret advertising were last week startled to find one great tobacco company virtually calling another a liar. Under the heading of Turning the light of Truth on false and misleading statements, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, scolded George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co., makers of Lucky Strikes, which claims that a special toasting process removes from cigaret tobacco its harmful irritants and corrosive acrids...
...Federal Trade Commission ordered them to stop using "fake testimonials and specious argument that all can keep slender by smoking that brand of cigarettes." The Camel advertisement also objected to the inference that the cigaret industry used "rank tobaccos" with harmful irritants, saying, in effect, that while George Washington Hill could legitimately discuss the rank tobacco in Luckies and its improvement by toasting, he should not attribute such rankness to the industry as a whole. Concerning toasting itself, the Camel copy said...
Previous Camel advertisements have been consistently conservative, with an impersonality in marked contrast to the advertising of Luckies. Indeed, the Lucky advertising has usually been read almost as a series of unsigned manifestos from George Washington Hill, the Napoleon of American Tobacco Co. However, neither William N. Reynolds, Camel chairman nor Bowman Gray, Camel president, has emerged from a corporate reputation to become a popular figure in the public...
During the years 1914 to 1922, some 900 boys attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pa. There, as their headmaster, they knew an erect, square-shouldered young man with crisp, rufous hair, square chin, and wide blue eyes that combined the attentiveness of a scholar, the vigilance of a martinet, the red-veined nervousness of a stallion. Boys, now men. who remember those eyes and the wide mouth that always trembled when it was trying to be most deliberate, know that Dwight Raymond Meigs was a combination of strong forces. "The King." the boys called him, some in fear, some...