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...Running concurrently with the Lucky-golfer advertisement, a Chesterfield advertisement pictured a grand & glorious battleship, described Chesterfield as "our Navy's" choice. Pointed by the fact that New York was then entertaining the U. S. battle fleet, the Liggett & Myers Co. advertisement represented attention value in a more conservative form...
Boston's police are directed by state, not city, officials. In February, the Massachusetts House of Representatives (accused of Wet parties in the Liggett article) voted to have State Attorney General Joseph E. Warner investigate the Garrett case. Last week to the legislature, and to Governor Frank G. Allen, the attorney general made his report. Verified and even expanded were Writer Liggett's charges and suspicions about Patrolman Garrett. Instead of suppressing bawdy houses, he sold them milk from his half-bootlegger-owned stock farm. Instead of raiding liquor joints, he ran a racket in them. Proprietors...
Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett, 55, organized Drug, Inc., two years ago. It is a holding company. Its original purchases were Sterling Products, West Virginia patent medicine makers, and Mr. Liggett's United Drug Co. With the United Drug purchase it acquired 664 Liggett drugstores in the U. S., 38 in Canada and contracts to supply 10,000 Rexall drugstores in the U. S. Besides those U. S. establishments, the United Drug purchase gave Drug, Inc. control of the 860 Boot's Drug Stores in Great Britain...
...goods sold are made largely by Drug, Inc. subsidiaries. For, after bringing United Drug and Sterling products together, Mr. Liggett quickly bought the companies which make Life Savers candies, Three-in-One oil, Ipana toothpaste, Sal Hepatica. Ingram's shaving cream, Fletcher's Castoria, Dr. W. B. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin & Herb Laxative Compound, Andrews Liver Salts...
Last week Drug Tycoon Liggett arranged to buy in another product, Vick's Vapo-Rub, made by Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last...