Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Funk's Your Life amoeba suffered another division with the publication of Your Health. Well aware of the prevalence of hypochondria in the U. S., Publisher Funk has specialized in such articles as "Tobacco and You," "What Coffee Does to You," "The Truth About Antiseptics," "Throw Away Your Cathartics?" With 175,000 copies of his first issue ordered, he hopes that quarterly Your Health will, as its predecessor has done, soon grow into a monthly...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
...Bardsville sensitive young Perse Munn returns after a term in a St. Louis law school, is mixed up in the affairs of the tobacco farmers' cooperative before he knows what it is to mean to him, to his pretty wife, or to the Trust. "Purposes and ideals of the Association," says a member, "is to make those son-a-bitching buyers pay me what my tobacco's worth...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...
...framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...