Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stimulants. Fond of tea. Never used tobacco in any form. He drank freely...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...
...Like most of the Southwest's first generation of indigenous tycoons, Jesse Jones's origins were humble. He was born 59 years ago on a farni in Robertson County. Tennessee. His father moved over into Kentucky where he heard there was money to be made in Burley tobacco. He died before he made much, leaving a farm to his three daughters, $2,000 each to his two sons. The sons applied their inheritance to paying off the mortgage on the sisters' farm, set off to shift for themselves. Aged 20, a brawny big youngster, Jesse found himself...
Andrew Jackson's relict was ostracized in Washington society for smoking her proverbial pipe and being a divorcee. . . . Unlike Mrs. Roosevelt, who as TIME states, smokes only for purpose of placing her guests at ease, Mrs. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson thoroughly enjoyed the relaxation provided by her tobacco...
Reason for the tobacco growers' plight is loss of foreign markets. Of a normal one and one-half billion pound crop less than half is consumed in the U. S. During Depression England and other overseas buyers have clamped on import duties, cut U. S. consumption. With U. S. stocks on hand already amounting to two billion pounds, prices for this year's crop depend on next year's crop restriction...