cigarmaker

The son of a cigarmaker in Cuba, he grew up in Florida and moved to New York after World War I, where in Harlem he became the king of the numbers racket, a kind of lottery, illegal but lucrative.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Any cigarmaker knows better than I how many it would replace, but I understand that a cigar-making machine would do the work of many cigar-makers.

20 NOVEMBER SPEECH AT L.A. STADIUM 1964

In early youth he became a cigarmaker, then a tobacco dealer, and later a grocer.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

I was employed by Charles Mun as a cigarmaker, and early on

The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker

Also there was Korwsky, and two other men; Moneta, a young Mexican cigarmaker out of work, and a man named Hamby, who had turned up on the previous evening, introducing himself as a pacifist who had been arrested and beaten up during the war.

They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923

Born in London of Dutch-Jewish lineage, on January 27, 1850, the son of a cigarmaker, Samuel Gompers was early apprenticed to that craft.

The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897

Often the wife is the original cigarmaker from the old home, the husband having adopted her trade here as a matter of necessity, because, knowing no word of English, he could get no other work.

XII. The Bohemians— Tenement-House Cigarmaking 1890