Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...thoroughly professional affair and that it will be well financed. Frank R. Kent, one of the ablest of political correspondents, estimates that every one of the active candidates?Coolidge, Johnson, Underwood, McAdoo, will have from $100,000 to $500,000 spent in his behalf before the Convention. With William Wrigley and A. D. Lasker as backers, Mr. Johnson's fund may go well beyond that figure. William Randolph Hearst is also in Mr. Johnson's background...
...none too good repair at home. The California Republican organization is against him, the southern Californians do not like his isolationist policies and the Hoover-Coolidge supporters are strong. Mr. Johnson's campaign is barely getting started and it will probably have plenty of financial backing. William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum) and Albert D. Lasker (advertising), ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board, are evidently behind...
...When the Wrigley Chewing-gum Company can declare a fifty million dollar stock melon as it did two days ago, it is time for the tireless foreigner who delights in criticising America to sit up and take notice. The national propensity for ice-water, the erection of enormous buildings, and the proverbial love of the dollar are all designated as "typically American," but the gum-chewing habit is even more "typical". And the Chicago company's action will certainly cause statistic-hunters to chortle with glee at this unexpected windfall...
...much the Salvation Army could get for the fifteen billion wrappers. Some especially gifted specialist will figure the horse power output of the jaws of America's gum-chewers, compare it with Niagara Falls, and reduce it to pounds of coal per annum. And next year, Mr. Wrigley will sell thirty billion sticks...
Rebecca West, the English novelist and critic (whose real name is Cecily Fairfield), had just arrived in Manhattan and we were driving up Broadway. She found the Wrigley chewing-gum sign with its flashing colors delightful. She had found the harbor of New York inspiring. Said she: " I intend to remain in America a long time-long enough to write a new novel...