Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose...
...last week to the National Advertising Federation. No adman who heard the statement was more pleased than swart, cigaret-smoking William Esty whose Manhattan agency prepares and places the advertising for Camel cigarets. Currently the "essential information" Mr. Esty is using to promote the sale of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s prime product is the untraditional statement that smoking is healthy...
...zero. Dawes 75, once worth 109? on the gold dollar, closed the week at 53? on the paper dollar. Young 5½s which have brought 91 were bringing 37 paper. Dawes bonds are worth more than Young bonds because they are backed by German customs and liquor revenues, tobacco, beer and sugar taxes. Meanwhile the Reichsbank, despite fresh batches of predictions from Berlin, Paris and London that the mark must now go off gold, maintained an attitude of stubborn insistence upon its so-called "gold standard" which has long been purely theoretical, since no one can get gold...
...home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women in poke bonnets and long capes. Watched by 12,000 spectators, they held mass communion...
Divorced. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., real estate man, her second husband; in Hot Springs, Ark. Charges: general indignities. Mrs. Smith's first husband was the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, whose second wife was Singer Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman...