Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, 62, Canadian banker, tobaccoman (Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada), sportsman, father-in-law of famed Actress Rosie Dolly; of heart disease; at Cannes...
...dirty little shack by a worn-out copper mine near the crest of the Bluebird Range in Montana, lives an old man with tobacco juice in his beard, holes in his shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept...
Rosie ("Dolly Sisters") Dolly landed at Manhattan last week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...
Great railroad, tobacco, rubber, sulphur and mining companies have been the products of his organizing genius. In 1916, as everyone knows, President Wilson appointed him as an advisory commissioner of the Council of National Defense. Because Mr. Baruch had contributed largely to Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing...
Although both twins continue damsels in the theatrical sense, Jennie has been married several times and Rosie once, last March, secretly, to Mortimer ("Morty") Davis Jr., Canadian tobacco tycoon...