Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court...
...still lamentably weak. In an entirely different field, there was bought a collection of nearly 700 volumes and pamphlets, including files of several important periodicals, illustrating the history of free thought in England and America in the nineteenth century. The purchase of a number of books relating to tobacco is a further example of the diversity of subjects helped by the generosity of Friends. This was to fill out a collection given some years ago, which, by the way, last year formed the basis of a doctor's dissertation, and has been used by several other research workers. A special...
...Morris County, N. J., Anna Horvath, 14, large, buxom, went frequently to shops, purchased cigarets. Since New Jersey law prohibits tobacco sales to minors, complaints were filed, shopkeepers were fined $10. Since New Jersey law awards fines to the complaining agent, The Commonwealth Humane Society of Woodridge, X. J., got the money. Last week a justice of the peace investigated. He found that Stephen Horvath, father of big Anna Horvath, was president of the Society. Mrs. Bietra Horvath, mother of Anna, was secretary & treasurer. Anna Horvath was a trustee. Stephen Horvath had made $100 per week in fines...
Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...
...apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50? in cash...