Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon the President went through a more serious ritual. Some 150 correspondents jampacked his office. The President leaned back in his chair, looked at his watch, lit a cigaret, smiled, waited until the doors were closed. Then, to each correspondent was given a piece of paper on which was mimeographed...
...Oklahoma City an editor sitting before his littered desk, flicked his cigaret to the floor, and turning deliberately to his typewriter put his finger on the right Key. He wrote: "Roosevelt has bet the country's last dollar on a single card and if he wins the result will be glorious...
...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...
...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...
...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...