Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Internal Revenue (Tobacco, stamp and estate taxes...
...WITH OLD COLDS. "Open up a pack of Old Colds. . . . Smell the to- bacco. . . . You can't because there isn't any tobacco...
...Stock Exchange filled Throgmorton Street well into the evening to continue dealings. New British Woolworth shares were a favorite, and such prominent London groups as the rubbers, home-rails, breweries and artificial silks were all higher. Internationals (mostly Americans) were strong. So were old favorites like Bats (British-American Tobacco), Imps (Imperial Tobacco), the Tinto (Rio Tinto), and the Johnnies (Johannesburg mining shares...
Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie Jr., 34, fun-loving Manhattan and Philadelphia socialite-sportsman, divorced secretly last March by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, niece of the late great tobacco tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck"') Duke, daughter of the late Benjamin Newton Duke who left her over $50,000,000 in 1929; and Mrs. Margaret Boyce Thompson Schulze, 34, only daughter of the late mining tycoon Col. William Boyce Thompson who died last June (TIME, July 7, 1930) leaving an estate of over $85,000,000: in London...
Morton Downey received last week $4,500 from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) for singing, in his high, cajoling tenor, half a dozen songs into the radio every evening. The week before he got $5,500 for appearing briefly on the stage of Manhattan's Paramount Theatre. Six weeks ago he closed his supper-club in the smart Delmonico Hotel. For last week alone, the royalties on his own song ''Wabash Moon" (which, until he recently adopted "Carolina Moon" because Camels are made in Winston-Salem, N. C., was the "signature" of his broadcasts) amounted...