Word: tobaccoman
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Bought and paid for by the Duke Endowment, a loft. bronze statue stood last week in the Manhattan studio of Sculptor Charles Keck. It shows the late, great Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke in frock coat, baggy trousers, clodhoppers. In his right hand is a cane; in his left, a cigar...
...tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell to the tobacco industry during and after the nerve-racking years...
...Tobaccoman Reynolds' brother William Neal, a great tobacco buyer, is the only Reynolds active in the company today. At 71 he is chairman of the executive committee. But Reynolds Tobacco has a long string of first class executives. Bespectacled Bowman Gray, a great tobacco salesman, is chairman of the board. Suave, meticulous S. Clay Williams left the presidency last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from...
...Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead of a small college. Trinity College was governed by a board of trustees two-thirds of whom were elected by Methodist church conferences, one-third by alumni. When in 1924 the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gave Trinity his name and some $40,000,000, the board was left untouched. But control of the Duke millions was put in the hands of a new board called the Duke Endowment. What most Dukemen wanted to know last week was whether the hand-picked...
...John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William T. Blackwell, the trade-mark bull became lighter...