Word: kroh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other days kings kept minstrels, to tell the world what mighty men their masters were. U. S. tycoons do not keep minstrels but sometimes they have literate friends. Such a convenient friend to Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett is Author Samuel Merwin (Silk, Temperamental Henry). Last week Liggett drugstores throughout the U. S. were featuring on their cut-rate book counters this "amazing TRUE story of a man who conceived the greatest cooperative organization in history." Because there is no such thing as a Pure Blurb and Ballyhoo Law, Publisher Boni could not be sued for misrepresentation. On the other hand...
...beginning (1928) Drug Inc. was a simple two-way union between a curiously assorted couple that had one thing in common: each earned about $6,000,000 a year. The groom was Louis Kroh Liggett's United Drug Co. The business of United Drug was and is to manufacture drugs and other drug store items for sale exclusively by its own retailers, in chief 10,000-odd Rexall Drug Stores. While United Drug's original business was manufacturing not retailing, some of its Rexall dealers had from time to time decided to retire from business and Mr. Liggett...
Maker of the muddle for clear-headed reasons was tall, scrawny-necked, gimlet-eyed Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Muddled were Philip Ernest Hill, a most successful young British financier, and Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett...
When President Coolidge left the White House in 1929, Secretary Clark, who looks not unlike his erstwhile chief, was snapped up by Louis Kroh Liggett and made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...
Adams gave a formal dinner for President Hoover at which Mr. Morgan was also a guest. Other guests included Charles Dewey Hilles, G. O. P. boss of New York and Louis Kroh Liggett. G. 0. P. boss of Massachusetts...