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...serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result of an A. F. of L.C. I. O. feud, Cedric Adams feverishly telephoned the home of his informant. When he got no answer, Prophet Adams, recalling the unsolved Minneapolis murders of weekly Editors Walter Liggett (1935) and Howard Guilford (1934), who had campaigned to expose the Minneapolis underworld, was a badly worried...
...Thousands of Dollars Magazines Radio General Motors Corp. 4,439 1,117 Procter & Gamble Co. 1,293 2,075 Standard Brands, Inc. 1,141 1,263 Ford Motor Co. 1,106 680 Chrysler Corp. 1,635 430 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1,585 439 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 1,034 651 General Foods Corp. 760 1,075 Lever Bros. 662 1,133 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. 1,107 947 American Tobacco Co. 919 636 Bristol-Myers...
Died. Lieut. Commander Winfield Liggett Jr., 56, who, after 14 years in the U. S. Navy, retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China...
...biggest drugstore chain in the U. S., but the biggest money-maker is Walgreen Co. It operates fewer stores (508) than United Drug, Inc. (568), has had none of the financial headaches of that rival. United operates mostly in the East (Liggett stores) and in California (Owl stores), while Walgreen concentrates in the Midwest. In 1932 United was eager to merge with Walgreen but was turned down, and next year the Liggett-controlled chains went through bankruptcy. Walgreen prospered during Depression, even expanded. Last week, to furnish working capital for further expansion, Walgreen Co. filed with SEC a recapitalization plan...
...with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant's dictum: "Publish or Perish," should take new heart. They may soon discover that they have "radio appeal," and to them the future certainly belongs...