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...Park & Tilford before the War was one of the largest liquor dealers in the U. S. They stocked tycoons' cellars from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte...
...Wall Street experienced a flurry in the shares of companies most likely to be benefited by a change in the law. The group of stocks Wall Street has come to call the "Wet Shares" includes Owens-Illinois Glass Co., National Distillers Products, American Commercial Alcohol, Crown Cork & Seal, Park & Tilford. Neatly timed to coincide with the Wet flurry was a $1,000,000 offering of shares in a brewery, the first sale of a brewery stock since...
...Viscount is addressed by George V as ''our right trusty and well beloved cousin." Cousin Snowden will choose what he wants to be Viscount of (perhaps his birthplace, Keighley; or his home, Tilford), will take his seat in the House of Lords later...
...ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Kin Hubbard spent all his life in newspaper work...
...same time it was announced that Henry Lowell Mason Jr. '32 of Boston, and Hunt Tilford Wagstaff '32 of Tuxedo Park, New York, will be respectively assistant cross country manager and interscholastic manager next year, and cross country manager and associate track manager in their Senior year...