Word: riggio
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...Washington Hill, Adman Foote had never openly questioned its raucous advertising of Lucky Strikes. "Would you argue with Babe Ruth," he explained, "if he were showing you how to hold a bat?" But after the elder Hill died a year and a half ago and 71-year-old Vincent Riggio succeeded him as president, Foote, like the younger Hill, was gradually provoked to a point beyond the bounds of "respectful disagreement," finally decided to quit...
...American Tobacco passed up George Washington Hill Jr., now 39, when it came to making a new president 18 months ago. To succeed old man Hill the directors picked Vincent Riggio, 71, who was vice president in charge of sales. Un der Riggio, Lucky Strike advertising went along as noisily as before, but Luckies' sales were no longer as good as they should have been. There was talk of trouble in the biggest tobacco company in the world...
There was more to the case than that. The men who know tobacco best said that Riggio, who had brought in his son Louis, 38, as assistant to the president, had gradually added to his own authority and influence at the expense of the younger Hill's. Another reason for Luckies' narrowing lead last year was the fact that Camel production had been stepped up so that Camels could stop rationing dealers, thus boosting sales. (Luckies had dropped rationing...
Shortly after, the new Yugoslav delegation was installed. Its chief, a towering Dalmatian Partisan captain, Jaksa Dubrovnik, stalked into the office of the Allied Advisory Council. Thumping his chest, he announced to U.S. Captain Steve Riggio his assumption of power, in the only three English words he knew: "Yugoslav delegation...
...Three" and 13 top executives were convicted by a jury of monopoly, conspiracy and price-fixing. The list of those convicted looked like a "Who's Who" of the industry: > American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes) ; President George Washington Hill; Vice Presidents Paul M. Hahn and Vincent Riggio. Also convicted were American Suppliers, Inc. (an American subsidiary) and its President James E. Lipscomb...