The office of Samuel Untermyer yesterday announced that scores of letters and queries by telephone had some in asking whether or not reports were true that Mr. Untermyer had mentioned during a recent broadcast the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Chesterfield cigarettes, as having supported the Nazi movement with subsidiaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This Mr. Untermyer’s office emphatically denied, asserting that to their knowledge the cigarette concern had no part in politics and that the rumor had been started by Nazi conspirators.
A spokesman for the Liggett & Myers concern likewise denied the rumors and attributed them to the operations of malicious groups striving to interfere with the concern’s business.
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