Search Details

Word: tobacco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy with characteristic frankness, Il Duce gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cutting Wages, Slashing Prices | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...sentence of 20-years-to-life. Immediately Prisoner Chapin was made editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin. At the instance of Author Basil King he wrote his book, Charles Chapin's Story. But the real substance of his prison life has been his gardening. First with his tobacco money, later with outside help (including a check every month from onetime Reporter Cobb), he set out his beautifully landscaped plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Simon Legree | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Died. John Lee Mahin, 61, advertising man, onetime vice president of Street Railways Co. and of Barren G. Collier, Inc., president of John Lee Mahin, Inc.; in Manhattan. Tobacco and liquor accounts he never handled, respecting his mother's wishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Said Student-Pugilist Fernando, fanned in his corner by his student-brother Guillermo: "I discontinued the use of sweets and tobacco three weeks ago in preparation for this bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Sweets & Medals | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes her feel more like talking. Or, especially if she isn't young and attractive, he may expectorate in her face. Some detectives chew tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jogging Prisoners' Memories | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | Next