Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
Senor Emilio Fortes Gil is a lawyer and was Governor of Tamaulipas from 1925 until his recent appointment as Minister of Interior. Stocky of figure and stern of face, he teetotals, eschews tobacco...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...
...Stores Corp. rose a few points. The apparent operations of a stock market pool was one cause; another, and more important, was the much mooted merger of Schulte (300 branches) with United Cigar Stores Corp. (3,000 branches). The two firms are now joined in interests in Union United Tobacco Co. (a holding company) and Schulte-United Five-Cents-to-a-Dollar Stores. United has large stockholdings in the Pennsylvania Drug Co., Schulte in the American Druggists Syndicate; United in Life Savers Inc., Beechnut Packing Co., Gillette Safety Razor Co., U. S. Tobacco Co., Philip Morris & Co. Ltd., Schulte...
...tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week, he announced her engagement to Carl Lomen, founder and dominator of the Alaskan reindeer industry...