Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaf tobacco...
Next to the Income Tax, the biggest source of Internal Revenue is the tax on tobacco. These collections, steadily increasing, were 64% of all miscellaneous Internal Revenue. Another increasingly productive source of Internal Revenue is documentary stamps. Stock market activity last year boosted sales of stock-transfer stamps to 24 millions, a 41% increase over...
Like almost every presentable young club member in Manhattan, Anthony Biddle Jr., has been called the city's best dressed man. At the age of 18, he married Mary L., the 28-year-old daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, the tobacco king.* Tongues wagged and darted, but the Biddies, in Palm Beach, Newport and Manhattan, for which they had deserted the native Biddle heath of Philadelphia, gave evidence of marital contentment. Tony Biddle played tennis, squash and swam, occasionally boxing at the Racquet Club to show that he was not afraid of being hurt, thus found many business enterprises...
Agriculture is the preoccupation of practically all state universities, but not of West Virginia, although its corn, hay, tobacco, potatoes and fruits are worth $100,000,000 each year. Its hillbilly farmers are too difficult to reach with farming information...
...Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...