Word: liggett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought fathered by a wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period...
...Chicago to become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...
...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 it a memorable...
Drugs. Louis K. Liggett Co., subsidiary of Drug, Inc., in Chicago this year has bought the seven drugstores of Buck & Rayner and the five of Postes Drug Co.; last week was negotiating to buy the 15 of MacLean Drug...
Mechanical Merchants. Humanitarian gizzards pulsated last week upon mention of a new $25,000,000 corporation to manufacture and distribute machines which-for a nickel, dime, quarter or slug dropped into a slot-will deliver any one of a thousand commodities, from candy to cathartics. Three drug store chains (Liggett, Owl, Walgreen), Happiness Candy Stores, United Cigar, Schulte, Union News, McCrory, Woolworth, Penney, Metropolitan and Grant stores will thus dispense part of their wares, and as smartly as their clerks the machines will cry out "Thank you" to the customers. They will also say "Corked tips protect the lips...