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...magazines founded on Public Discontent have cropped up in the past year. One called Brass Tacks is four months old. Another. National Spotlight, edited by muckraking Walter William Liggett, vanished after a single appearance. This week came another, a 15? fortnightly on pulp stock named Common Sense, in which Writer Liggett again was the most conspicuous contributor. But Common Sense was distinguished by other characteristics. Its founders and chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate...
...rolling in. News of this reached President Reuben M. Ellis of Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. and its Richmond subsidiary, Continental Tobacco Co. Continental had been having trouble distributing a cigaret called Paul Jones (price, 10?) in New England. President Ellis arranged with the United and Schulte cigar stores and Liggett and Whelan drug stores to display Paul Jones (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Then he inserted in New York, Philadelphia and Boston newspapers a single advertisement: "20 for 10?. America. . . . Here's your cigarette!" Manhattan sales jumped. By February White Rolls and Paul Jones were producing some...
...York Stock Exchange last week tobacco stocks took a deep dive. At the end of the week Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. was 53, ten points below its Monday high. American Tobacco Co. was down eight points to 61. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. dropped from 31 to 28⅞. P. Lorillard Co., low already, held fairly steady, closing five-eighths of a point off at 13. Wall Street buzzed with rumors of impending price cuts on the four leading U. S. cigaret brands&-American's Lucky Strike, Reynolds' Camel, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, Lorillard's Old Gold...
...General March, long, lean, bearded son of a college professor, took command in March 1918 and carried the Army through the Armistice. Last week appeared his The Nation at War* to take its place beside General Pershing's Pulitzer-prize-winning My Experiences in the World War, General Liggett's A. E. F., General Harbord's Leaves From a War Diary and Frederick Palmer's Newton D. Baker...
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...