Word: philip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...
Atlantic Coast Republicans, including Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Representative-elect James M. Beck of Philadelphia, Representative John Philip Hill of Baltimore, one-time (1915-17) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, attended a dinner at the Union League Club, Manhattan. Mr. Wadsworth and President Butler made orations but the oracle of the evening was Captain Stayton, who outlined his Association's plans for next year...
...Another cause of Presidential annoyance during the week was a well-intentioned but (according to President Coolidge) ill-advised chain-letter boom for his renomination, started but obediently stopped by Philip M. Tucker, Boston banker...
Promoting a new brand of cigarets in the U. S. is vastly difficult. Smoking habits must be broken, tastes changed. Established brands hold their customers fast-R. J. Reynolds' "Camels," Liggett & Meyers' "Fatimas" and "Chesterfields," American Tobacco's "Lucky Strikes" and "Mela-chrinos" and Philip Morris' "Marl-boroughs." Each sells 75 million to more than 100 million a day. To join this phalanx, not especially to disrupt it, Continental Tobacco recently dressed its new cigaret "Barking Dog" with the strong armor of advertising. So far "Barking Dogs" success is indeterminable. More recently United Cigar Stores...
...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...