Word: liquormen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acquired a distributing unit and with it three capable whiskey men all named Jacobi, he organized Schenley Distillers Corp. He sold $3,000,000 of stock to the public through the banking house of Lehman Brothers, had himself commissioned a Kentucky Admiral and began to expand in earnest. All liquormen regard the Schenley management highly. They were all born & bred to the business, and excitable, aggressive Lewis Rosenstiel knows precisely what he is up to. Schenley will cross the line with about 5,000,000 gal. which entitles it to one-fourth of the total business and the rank...
After months of jockeying and no little cursing, legitimate liquormen last week sought to hold the positions they had achieved. Square in the front rank were the whiskey men-Seton Porter of National Distillers with more than 50% of all U. S. whiskey in his saddle bags; Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
...July it was learned that D. C. L.'s managing director, Thomas Herd, was in Montreal visiting his affiliated Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Ltd. About all the liquormen knew was that Mr. Herd was a quiet, hard-headed gentleman who abhorred publicity and brokers, that he never moved a step without an aide, Thomas Wilkinson...
...weeks later D. C. L.'s Canadian representative appeared in Manhattan. Archibald Kelly held court at the Hotel St. Regis and lived at the Wraldorf-Astoria. But even from the affable Mr. Kelly, liquormen learned nothing. It was variously reported that D. C. L. was about to set up its own agency, that it intended to parcel out its brands among various distributors; that it was really dickering with 'leggers who had been such splendid customers these many years. Who if anyone would finally get the business of the $125,000,000-whiskey trust remained last week...