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When a British workman bothers to find out who is Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen...
One autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands...
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"Apparently, a certain rough law of compensation is at work in the cigaret trade," commented Standard's statisticians. "Whenever a single brand advances far ahead of the others, it eventually becomes the victim of a competitor's advertising attack. This happened to Camel in 1929-31 and to...
Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the 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...