Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Betty Lipe, daughter of President Raymond P. Lipe of Defiance Spark Plug Co.; and Howard De Vilbiss, son of the late Thomas De Vilbiss, president of De Vilbiss Co. (atomizers); in Toledo...
American Snuff (chief brands: Honest, Dental, Garrett) maintained its reputation of stability, made $1,916,000 against $1,893,000. Its big competitor, LL S. Tobacco (Copenhagen snuff, also chewing, smoking, plug tobacco and cigarets) made $3,020,000 against $2,950,000. George W. Helme Co- (Navy Sweet, Square Strong snuff) made $2.147,000 against $2,331,000. P. (Pierre) Lorillard Co (Old Gold), which recently paid its first dividend since 1926, made $4.846,000 against $3,614,000. A big Lorillard stockholder is Selected Industries with 102,580 shares...
When the late plug-hatted, snow- whiskered Col. William D'Alton Mann published Town Topics 30, 40 years ago, he made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item...
...Mann, who regularly gorged himself on gargantuan meals at the Lotos Club or at Delmonico's, kept an expensive house on Riverside Drive and a summer home at Lake George, strutted about at opera and horse show, a conspicuous figure with his whiskers, flaming red tie, frock coat, plug hat, and heavy walking stick which could make a highly effective bludgeon...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...