Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke...
...white banners proclaiming that the 18th Amendment must be repealed. It was "National Repeal Week," sponsored by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform of which Mrs. Sabin is national chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt campaign chief. After their horn-blowing motorcades, during which they were careful not to smoke cigarets in conservative districts, the suburban ladies returned to make streetcorner speeches patterned after Mrs. Sabin's radio address. Excerpts from the latter...
Even from Harbin the League Commission could see flames leaping by night and great smoke clouds belching by day from towns north of Harbin fired by Chinese soldiers reputedly under General Ma's command. Japanese soldiers resisting the Chinese attack played a dig-in game, awaited reinforcements. When these arrived they proved to be two Japanese divisions hastily withdrawn from Shanghai. What correspondents called "Japanese nervousness" led to the piling up of sand bag barricades in Harbin streets, the stringing of barbed wire...
Last March Washington co-eds gained permission to smoke cigarets, but not on dance floors. A famed Washington professor is Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig, gynecologist, who last year published a learned compendium on abortion (TIME...
...house in Foxhall Village, a development in Georgetown, lives there with his wife and young son. He drives a Pierce Arrow, wears glasses. likes to pitch horseshoes, take long solitary walks. Formal Washington society interests him little or none. Beetle-browed, tightlipped, he dresses well but inconspicuously. His smoke: cigars. Impartial House observers rate him thus: A quiet and obscure legislator, he is typical of the Congressional rank & file of whom the country at large never hears. He does small satisfying chores for his constituents and leaves leadership, speechmaking and publicity antics to others: locally a good representative, nationally...