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...Governor Pinchot met two-edged opposition. The Legislature, on the Governor's recommendation, enacted a $2-per-gallon tax on all liquor stored within the State on Dec. 5. Distillers indignantly protested, claiming that the bill was unconstitutional, that they had not been given a hearing. Famed Schenley Distillers, the major part of whose stocks are stored in Pennsylvania, and National Distillers Products Corp., closed their plants, announced they would make their liquor elsewhere. Other manufacturers tried to ship liquor out of Pennsylvania, were prevented by armed troopers. Meanwhile in Harrisburg, a Pinchot control bill setting up a three...
...better to hear the suits, aging Henri Schueg, son-in-law of the founding Facundo Bacardi and present head of the House, journeyed to Manhattan last month. Last week shrewd old Henri Schueg announced that he had at last found a suitable suitor-the importing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Most important foreign liquor agency thus far assigned, the Bacardi franchise covers all the U. S. except the Pacific Coast, where Bacardi sales will be handled by O. J. Rohde of Pacific Liquor...
...maintained their European connections through the dry years. Exclusive agencies usually call for a specified volume, and if the new firms fail to develop markets, they will lose their contracts. Only three newcomers whom the old importers regard as potential competitors are Tillier-Thompson. the distributing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers and R. C. Williams & Co.. an old grocery firm about to handle liquor for the first time. Some old importers and their brands...
...with another distributor. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, once its dryish directors were converted to the liquor business, went after Bacardi. The Canada Dry executive who handled the regulations left to build up a liquor business for the Schulte interests. Soon he was trying to get Bacardi for Park & Tilford. Schenley Distillers went after Bacardi; so did National Distillers, Lamborn & Co. (sugar), R. C. Williams, W. A. Taylor & Co. Thoroughly enjoying the game, the Bacardis played one off against the other...
...since Goldman, Sachs floated Blue Ridge Corp. has a new stock issue been gobbled up the way one was last week. Through Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, Schenley Distillers (Golden Wedding Rye) sold 230,000 shares of its stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build...