Word: moguls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas J Maloney, 73. onetime (1911-24) president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Golds, Helmar, Mogul. Murad); of pneumonia, complicated by heart disease and grief over his wife's death last fortnight; in Teaneck...
...gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose Dickensian organist, opportunity to remark to General Brackenbury, a grand mogul who spiced his living with curry and memories of Balaklava, "By George, General, the man who numbered our street must have known who were going to live...
Crime, in its bloody ugliness, would not drop from sight if underworld liquor traffic were ceased. Hundreds of "gat" toters would be without employment and without subsistence. Would that not be more of a temptation to commit crime than a mere "bump off" order from a whisky mogul? The underworld was not created by prohibition, but it has become enormously rich from its major industry...
...What did it matter that "Winnie" is only No. 2 man in the Conservative Party? Or that No. i Man Stanley Baldwin had decided not to oppose passage of the Act by acclaim? Mr. Churchill is the grandson of a duke (Marlborough) with the fighting instincts of a Grand Mogul or a rat-hunting terrier. Singlehanded, while Conservative whips treated him to blackest looks, Well-dined "Winnie" flayed the Treaty, repeated thunderously his now famed anti-Treaty slogan...
...University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives, and it is a fortnightly. Taxi Weekly "turned the corner...