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...Schenley. Lewis Rosenstiel wanted to get out of the whiskey business when the years of the locust began but his family would not let him. So he sat down in Cincinnati to wait. He bought up stocks of medicinal whiskey, concentrated them in a warehouse in Schenley, Pa.-a move which, because of Governor Pinchot's tax, he sorely regretted last week. Later he bought the distillery that went with the warehouse and a few other distilleries. Last summer, having acquired a distributing unit and with it three capable whiskey men all named Jacobi, he organized Schenley Distillers Corp...
...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...
...Bacardi. Schenley also has an importing subsidiary whose list of foreign wines & liquors is the envy of every U. S. importer. Whiskey men and the importers have completely reversed their pre-War position. Today there are only a handful of major whiskey units where before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti...
Like the venerable Scotch brands, which were both bootlegged and faked on a grand scale, Bacardi rum is more widely known in the U. S. today than ever it was before Prohibition. No one was more surprised than President Jacobi of Schenley Products Co. when someone called up one day last month to say that Henri Schueg, shrewd, white-thatched head of Compania
After the papers were signed a Schenley official hurriedly sent for a bottle of Bacardi to show the Press. As it was passed around Old Henri Schueg began to chuckle. It was bootleg with a faked label...