Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cigaret-smoking! The idea...
...Sticking cigaret after cigaret in his long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that...
Harold McGugin in the meantime was too smart to remain unknown. In 1926 he was elected to the Kansas Legislature. He promptly proposed a law forbidding Kansans to eat mince pie. It was foolish but it made Kansans see the folly of their law against cigarets. Legislator McGugin made his political name by getting Kansas' anti-cigaret law repealed...
...gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret as he gets into a lorry to go to jail for three years...
...prodding him with questions, hoping for newsmaking answers. Correspondent Blair Moody of the Detroit News asked whether the President had any comment to make about accusations against the Collector of Internal Revenue for Michigan. The President looked blank, asked for details. After hearing them he frowned, ground out his cigaret. said that if such things were true they would have to end immediately. Next day agents of the Treasury Department turned up in Detroit. Three days later Secretary Morgenthau emerged from the White House to announce that Collector of Internal Revenue Horatio Johnson Abbott of Detroit was out of Government...