Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goose Step by Upton Sinclair we read: "Today he (Buck) boasts that he is worth 400 millions. . . . Assuming that his services in providing the world with tobacco were worth $100 a week it would have taken 154,000 years to earn his own share of this money. A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on his money-making methods contains the assertion that he 'persistently, continuously and consciously violated the law.' " I quote again: "This man who is worth $400,000,000 pays only $828 taxes in the State where he lives in a magnificent palace...
...April 27 issue of TIME, I would like to correct several errors. Instead of paying i$<:' for moving picture shows on the campus, we pay 251' and I would also like to point out that Mr. W. N. Reynolds is not President of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. but is chairman of the board. Otherwise the article was very satisfactory and I commend you most highly...
...little above herself in her fine clothes, a little sentimental when the orchestra strikes up a popular song of years past, but gorgeously enjoying herself. The Vagabond harks back to the days when he wandered into a cafe where lovely women rose smiling out of a pall of tobacco smoke, and beer came in litre stone mugs. He would sit by the hour at a table as the lovely women and the little stone mugs came and went listening to an orchestra somewhere in the distance playing "Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that "Woodman Spare That...
...Boston there is a substitute. It is inadequate to be sure, but it is a very pleasant substitute all the same. At the "Pops" there is no beer in litre stone mugs, and there are few lovely women to rise smiling out of a pall of blue tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement is the organ...
Porto Rican American Tobacco Co. started a new type of advertising for its "El Toro" cigars. Under a picture of Porto Rico's Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and over his signature it headlined: ROOSEVELT SAYS: "Give Porto Rican products a chance. . . . Our sugar, our fruit, both canned and fresh, our coffee, our vegetables, our hand embroidery, our needlework and our tobacco, are all in my opinion of exceptional quality. ... I wish our fellow Americans on the continent would give us a chance to prove the quality of these articles by trying them and seeing if they do not agree...