Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norwegian industries at a standstill last week were: shipyards, textiles, leather, tobacco, pulp, paper, rubber, soap, shoes, electro-chemicals, chocolate, clothing, sawmills, building trades, electrical and printing industries...
...German press, virtually without exception, was thundering against Chancellor Brüning's ''emergency decree," issued in his absence by President von Hindenburg. Its upping of the income tax, gasoline tax. tobacco tax: its slashing of the wages of state employes and the unemployment dole; finally an impression that ''Iron Cross" Brüning had written his decree with a ruthlessness fanatic & unfeeling?all this profoundly displeased the German populace...
President Parson, 58, fits well in the fancy office. He prides himself on keeping his desk clean, never appearing busy. He has taste. He likes the opera and dis likes tobacco. In both his $1,000,000 Long Branch, N. J. home and his $1,200,000 Paris residence are pipe-organs, tapestries. A link between Mr. Parson and the Founder is Charles Sumner Woolworth, 74, now chairman of the company his brother founded. He lives in Scranton, is seldom in Manhattan except for board meetings...
...conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting in the sun with his blackthorn stick and shepherd...
Died. George J. Wise, 57, founder with his brothers Edward and Albert of the tobacco business which became United Cigar Stores Co. of America; suddenly, in Providence...