Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Campbell Soup, Thermos Bottle. Atwater Kent Radio and American Tobacco curtseyed twice last week to George V and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace...
...sent to be presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...
Ingenious, but not strictly logical was his interrelating tobacco and coffee with divorce and crime: "Nearly every smoker drinks coffee (perhaps because the stimulant caffeine is a sort of antidote to the sedative nicotine), and the per capita consumptions of coffee and sugar in this country have both increased about 50 per cent in the last twenty years. All this is probably partly responsible for the increase of crime and divorce, though perhaps few smokers would concede that. Some very estimable gentlemen indeed use tobacco, but at the same time it can hardly be disputed that the great majority...
Ambassador, Tobacco, Papers...
...Tobacco. The supreme Pontiff made known at the Vatican that in the Papal State the privilege of dealing in tobacco will shortly be constituted a government monopoly as in Italy...