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Please explain why TIME'S editors permitted mention of a particular brand of cigaret in issue of July 3, quoting: "Administrator General Hugh Johnson . . . was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts...
Most of last week, Industrial Recovery Administration Administrator General Hugh Samuel Johnso, U. S. A. retired, was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts in a little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...doctor was summoned, said that the paralysis was caused by a light stroke of apoplexy, that gradual recovery was probable. Joe Humphries balked when the doctor suggested a hospital, went instead to a nearby boardinghouse. The second day he had regained enough muscular control to smoke a cigaret...
Died. Osee Lee Bodenhamer, 40, one-time (1929-30) national commander of the American Legion; of burns suffered in an oil field near Henderson, Tex. when he, 150 yd. from the nearest well, set off a gas explosion by lighting a cigaret; in Shreveport...
...Curtis advertising salesmen. Of patent medicine advertising, Publisher Curtis would have none, and once in the old days, when there was no money to meet the month's payrolls, he is said to have returned a check for $18,000 to a would-be advertiser of medicines. Cigaret advertising also was taboo (Mr. Curtis smoked cigars) until 1930 when hard times had squeezed the fat old Post from its 272-page high, to below 100 pages...