Word: schenley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quaker, "A Friendly Whiskey," has been made in the U. S. for 50 years. Today it is marketed by a subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Some members of the Society of Friends object mildly to Quaker Oil, Quaker Oats, the Quaker Line, Quaker Novelty Puffing. But they object vigorously to Old Quaker whiskey. They object to Old Quaker's implicit identification with the "purity and integrity" of the Quaker faith. They resent the implication that Quakers drink; they aren't supposed to. The Society is displeased that the Old Quaker trademark is a picture of William Penn, standard...
Quakers began hectoring Schenley several years ago. Although it had no intention of yielding its 50-year-old name, a valuable property, the firm agreed gradually to reduce the size of the Old Quaker's picture, to kill him off completely at the first opportunity. To Friends, however, the Old Quaker still looks pretty big and bibulous. Friend Malcolm Read Lovell, authorized by a Manhattan Quaker meeting to study the problem, suggested a boycott-by others. For an effective boycott of a whiskey by teetotaling Quakers was a bit of a problem. Mr. Lovell's solution: to circularize...
...Grover Whalen slipped easily into a $100,000-a-year berth at Wanamaker's store, returned to civic affairs in the Mayor Walker regime when he became police commissioner and won his immortal epitaph-"The Gardenia of the Law." Grover Whalen has also held a fat job with Schenley Distillers and once served as New York City NRAdministrator...
Pittsburgh was reported swinging from isolation to hemisphere defense, but not yet to helping in Europe. Schenley High School, a famed local barometer, voted 55-45% against "cooperation" with France and England. Talk about the war-products possibilities of Pittsburgh's multifarious factories made labor recall war wages even as capital recalled war profits...
...Schenley Distillers...