Word: liggett
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under the guise of a dulcet French nomenclature, the Dining Halls continue to serve food of the better drugstore variety. This is not to say anything against that venerable American institution, the drugstore; but there is a growing feeling among Harvard men that for Liggett's food they should pay Liggett's prices...
...foreign principal." By unloading the Worker on three amiable old ladies, it appeared that the Communist Party might save itself a lot of trouble and perhaps some financial worries (such as the fine for criminal libel recently imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed...
...well-nigh invulnerable trust by 1910, controlled the market for every tobacco product but cigars. Roosevelt's and Taft's trustbusters broke it into pieces, rearranged the pieces so that there were at least two companies making each important product, four important cigaret makers. Those four, American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds, and Lorillard, plus hefty Newcomer Philip Morris, are the "Big Five" today...