Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before the partnership blanks were distributed many a potent company had wired the President support of his program. Among the first were American Tobacco, Sears. Roebuck, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea, Florsheim Shoe. But it was the small independent employer not in the habit of telegraphing the White House who would make or break the campaign. Some doubtless would sign agreements and then secretly violate them. For such cheating some N. R. A. advisers thought they could be penalized under the National Recovery Act. Declared General Johnson: "We'll administer this thing through the squawks. When I hear...
...C.C.C. member receives $30 pay per month, as Corporal Baker stated, but he does not receive free laundry, free tobacco, or free picture shows. He docs take an oath to serve in the Corps six months and is not free to go home anytime he chooses...
Some C.C.C. camps might receive the free tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows of which Corporal G. F. Baker speaks in his letter "Raw Deal" (TIME, June 26), but ours doesn't. It is true, however, that our laundry is done at no cost to us. Any time we're free to we can borrow a bucket, heat some water in it over an open fire, and wash our clothes...
...worst offenders," said he. ''are not the great billposting concerns, which appreciate that advertising which arouses strong criticism is bad business. . . . The Society has long been gravely concerned by the increasing disfigurement of picturesque country villages and small towns by advertisements of various proprietary articles: tea, cocoa, tobacco, cigarettes, soap, starch, poultry food, dog biscuits and, er- what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form...
Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created...