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...With the cigaret and pipe apparently as much a part of wearing apparel as shirts and cravats, why are no photographs ever published showing a President in the act of smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...down around 10? to 12? a lb. In August North Carolina's Ehringhaus proclaimed a holiday, stopped proceedings for three weeks to give Federal Farm restriction efforts time to finish plans for next year's "bright" crop, to give other Federal agents time to get U. S. cigaret companies to agree to a minimum price of 17? per pound. When the markets reopened prices were about 50% higher for the better grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobaccoliday | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

With a squiggle of his pen Dr. Kung upped China's cigaret taxes by a staggering 50%. Twelve Shanghai cigaret factories instantly closed in protest, locked out 8,000 cigaret makers who shrilly cursed Dr. Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Balance or Bust | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic," ended up by saying "I must take a little more time to make up my mind." Last week, Judge Woolsey's mind was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Welcome to Ulysses | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...were ushered in to the first interview ever given by the Grandpa President. They found him in a blue serge suit, old brown sweater and clean white shirt perched on the desk of Commissioner of Communications Alexei Rykov. "Well, well," chuckled Grandpa Kalinin accepting and lighting a U. S. cigaret, "I have never been so close to so many American newspapermen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Front Man's First | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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