Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest corporate income was $5,462,424-the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, with the Swedish Match Corporation and Swedish Liquor Monopoly* coming in second and third place...
...PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
...Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan, rather voluptuous in a black mohair suit, surrounded by assistant counsel...
...doubtful beginning was made by a Reichstag committee which refused to sanction an increase in beer and tobacco taxes...
...loan proceeds to aid Germany's payments; and that eventually these payments will reach a minimum of $625,000,000 a year. The budget for 1925-26 shows an estimated deficit of $34,000,000, but this is expected to be remedied by increased taxation of beer and tobacco. Inter-State financial arrangements come in for criticism. Under the present system, 90% of the income and corporation taxes collected by the Reich are transferred to the German States. The Experts recommended a reduction of this percentage but nothing has been done concerning it. Lastly, he laments that, since stabilization...