Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chesterfield's Liggett & Myers has had a contract with A. F. of L.'s International Tobacco Workers since 1937. Last week, after Chesterfield's union workers had struck for better terms than they had in an expired agreement, Liggett & Myers re-signed for its plants at Durham, N. C., Richmond and San Francisco. Vital clause in the amended contract: "In the interest of promoting a more harmonious relationship, the company approves of its employes becoming members of the union, and therefore it is further desired by the company that those employes not now members . . . shall become members...
...Duty on tobacco was increased 21%, which will mean that a package of popular priced cigarets will now cost about 27? instead of 25? as at present. Another effect: some 350,000 cigaret-vending machines (used mainly after 7 p. m. when all tobacco shops by law must close) are now obsolete...
...feature a starting array of talent plus the additional attraction of free refreshments to be dispensed in Memorial Hall. Drinks donated by Hires, Moxie, and Coca Cola, ice cream from Hood's, and Chiclet chewing gum will be distributed, and all who attend will also be presented with cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes given by Leavitt and Pierce, and by Liggett and Myers...
...save the highest of the high command were as much surprised as the lowliest sailor out with his girl. Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, after a conference in Washington, was on leave at Annapolis. In a Manhattan theatre, during the 2,284th performance of Tobacco Road, a voice from the stage advised all U. S. sailors in the house to get back to their ships. While 40-odd obeyed, the audience stood, cheered, wondered...
...first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...