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...footballer (1923), last man tapped for Skull & Bones in his year, vice president of Memphis Cotton Compress & Storage Co. and president of the Carnival Association. Then there is Abe Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town's dry goods tycoon is William R. King of William R. Moore Dry Goods...
Having smashed windows and thrown its firecracker-an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine-Japan was waiting with its fingers in its ears for the explosion. But the tramping back & forth of diplomats did much to snuff out the fuse...
...primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...
...made despite the fact that several boards deferred action until after Jan. 1 when the 5% Federal dividend tax expires. To the swelling stream of dividend resumptions was added a $3 payment by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, $1 by Tide Water Oil, 25? by Dictaphone. Three tobacco companies, American Snuff, U. S. Tobacco and Helme, declared extras...
...trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...