Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years delivered such pungent judgments as, "No Government in the world is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship." TIME repeats that his dynamic fact-marshaling has consistently been antiStalinist, which in official Moscow's view is always the chief evidence of "Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have been noted (TIME, Jan. 8, 1934), but Nikolai Lenin did not die until...
...work pressing pants. However, Bronstein, or Trotsky, seemed less interested in pants pressing than in the Communist literature which he read in his spare time. He had been working only a few days when my uncle returned to the shop after a brief absence to find the room in smoke, the pants burning, and Trotsky in the corner reading his literature...
Sirs: . . . The Feb. 15 issue of TIME carries an article with regard to my endorsement of Lucky Strike cigarets that sets a new high in newsgarbling. Whether TIME erred or was misinformed is of no consequence. The facts are these: I smoke Luckies, and have smoked them for years. I have seen them made at the Lucky Strike factory at Durham, N. C. Occasionally I do smoke other cigarets, but the big majority of my smokes are Lucky Strikes and I prefer them-a fact which is well known to my friends...
...Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...
...users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...