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Arnold L. Ogden, executive vice president of Alfred Dunhill of London, class tobacconist (U. S. operating company of Dunhill International, Inc.), last week was made president of the company. In that post he succeeded David A. Schulte (who gives his name to the famed tobacco chainstores) who became chairman...
...worth of tobacco which he said the Government was withholding from him. The stranger told him to bring the money to an address on Centre Street which he described as ''the Government tax building." Listakis arrived with the money, gave it to the tobacconist, sat down against a carved lion while his friend went inside for the "release papers.'' He waited a half-hour, grew exasperated, went inside. "Could you tell me," he asked a uniformed officer, "where is the place that you pay taxes on tobacco?" Said the officer: "What do you want...
Victor in the nominating race (equivalent to election) was Robert Rice Reynolds (no tobacconist), 47-year-old Asheville lawyer who had won the first primary by 15,000 votes against a field of four. Advocating outright repeal, he declared: "This isn't a question of bringing liquor back because it has never left...
...paper money is a little better than the average trading-stamp, and a trifle inferior to the usual tobacconist's rebate coupon. . . . The words are there and the letters are there?evidently graphic signs intended to convey a meaning?but they are inscribed in such a fashion and distributed in such a way that every effort of the mind to grasp their significance is frustrated. . . . And this document?this singular document?stands as the prime symbol of value in the infinite transactions of a great commercial nation. It is worth its face in gold, but, my God! what a face...
Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later...