Word: tillier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jean Tillier, affable U. S. representative of the French Line, resigned to launch an importing house with Henry S. Thompson, founder and former president of Thompson-Starrett Co. (building construction). Tillier-Thompson, Inc. got the contract for Pommery-Greno champagne and Chauvenet wines. Charles F. Bertelli, a Hearst European correspondent in Paris, rushed to Manhattan with a new wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers...
...hands of the more venerable importers who 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...
Quail-hunting on the Gillisonville, S. C. preserves of Charles S. Haight, Manhattan admiralty lawyer, dapper Jean Tillier...
Looking like nobody's enemy, M. Jean Tillier, tall, broad-shouldered manager of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada, made the challenging announcement in Manhattan. "Within 30 days," said he in crisp English, "we will lay at Saint Nazaire the keel of a liner larger, and also faster, than any ever built before. . . . She will be more than 1,000 feet long, nearer in fact to 1,100 feet. . . .* In her motive power she will follow a comparatively new line, first laid down by the United States Navy and later followed by the French-namely, turbo...
...Grand Salon in slick, mirror-like birdseye maple, softly lit by carved glass Lalique electroliers. Though he had just exhorted Frenchmen to build ugly cargo boats, M. Rollin waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their yapping and yonking without annoying ordinary First Class passengers...