Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders in the struggle, so far unsuccessful, to abolish unsightly advertising will read with joy of the Supreme Court's favorable decision in regard to the Utah billboard law. In upholding the law, which forbids the advertising of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco, on billboards or other public placards, the court has shown a trend away from its former policy of allowing all types of advertising...
...decision, as an end in itself, signifies little. The removal of tobacco advertisements will make no great effect on the total number of billboards, nor on the amount of tobacco smoked. Since the decision rests on the fact that tobacco can be considered injurious, and thus subject to regulation, the great majority of commodities cannot be affected by it. All other advertising is still allowed under the previous decision that it cannot be restricted for purely aesthetic reasons...
Duke University owes its existence to over $40,000,000 bestowed by the late great head of the 80% U. S. tobacco monopoly. James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
American Snuff (chief brands: Honest, Dental, Garrett) maintained its reputation of stability, made $1,916,000 against $1,893,000. Its big competitor, LL S. Tobacco (Copenhagen snuff, also chewing, smoking, plug tobacco and cigarets) made $3,020,000 against $2,950,000. George W. Helme Co- (Navy Sweet, Square Strong snuff) made $2.147,000 against $2,331,000. P. (Pierre) Lorillard Co (Old Gold), which recently paid its first dividend since 1926, made $4.846,000 against $3,614,000. A big Lorillard stockholder is Selected Industries with 102,580 shares...
...York Public Library. Lawyer Ledyard, like his partners James Coolidge Carter and John George Milburn, was a onetime president of the New York Bar Association. For 30 years he was counsel to the New York Stock Exchange. In an age of business dinosaurs he unscrambled the old American Tobacco Co. upon its dissolution as a trust...