Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old bottle of rum in honor of the fact that the Federal Government is soon to finance a $1,000,000 rum distillery and sugar plantation on the islands. Then back in Puerto Rico, she settled down to the real business of her trip, lunched in a tobacco factory, scrutinized children for undernourishment, visited the slums, grinned at housewives who benevolently waved at her with chunks of relief-administered salt pork, and murmured ecstatically, "Que Simpatica! Que Carinosa!" (How understanding! How lovely...
...President issued an order cutting the last link between the National Labor Board and NRA. To its eight members, he added five more: Clay Williams, president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Leon Marshall of Johns Hopkins Law School; Ernest Draper, Manhattan food packer; Gerard Swope, president of General Electric; and Harry Dennison, stationery supplies manufacturer. Thus was the first step taken to give the Labor. Board new powers to settle the Weirton Steel and Budd Manufacturing Co. labor disputes...
...constitute all the dramatic action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
...Sept. 25, 1931 a great crowd of farmers collected at Columbia, Ky. to celebrate the Traylor-for-President boom. The wives brought baskets of food, and an old-fashioned dinner was spread at noon under the trees, near the fields where Mel Traylor had spent afternoons plucking tobacco worms. A Bowling Green banker orated: "He reminds us of another man, born just a short distance from here at Hodgenville, whose strange, sad wisdom influenced his nation . . . the world...
...Connellys, mother (Henrietta Crosman), son Will (Robert Young ) and Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl off her place. Alter the usual to-do Will makes a stand, marries Joanna, turns the plantation from cotton to tobacco and reaps...