Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred under Letters, issue Jan. 1, when it stated, "First First Lady to smoke was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...
Suddenly there was a yellow flash, a loud explosion. One of the students, Nicholas Constantinescu, had pulled a smoke bomb from his pocket and hurled it. Before the smoke had cleared he walked slowly up to the unscathed Prime Minister, placed one hand on his shoulder and fired four shots into his head and body. Ion Duca turned at the second shot, made the sign of the Cross, dropped with blood oozing from his mouth...
Dearth of smoking pictures is due merely to failure of cameramen to click. Only smoking-picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the files of Manhattan agencies is here shown (see cut). It was taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.-ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy...
...national championship which preceded tast fortnight's play. Although he had scored a high run of 125 and had run out a game in two innings during the national championship, Kelly was so gloomy over his chances against Greenleaf that he went outside for a smoke in the 14th inning. After he re turned, Greenleaf scratched. Taking ad vantage of the break, Kelly fought into the lead, held the defending champion off until the 25th inning, finally took the game with a run of 13. (125-10-85.) It was the first game Greenleaf had lost in three years...
Thus did Henry Ford break precedents. He and Edsel Ford do not drink beer and he has never permitted his employes to drink or smoke. Second innovation was to show his new model ahead of other automakers instead of several weeks after. Next day he broke a third precedent. He talked to all his 7,000 dealers and their salesmen simultaneously by long distance telephone...