Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision was against Crowell, asking $75,000. A U. S. District Court threw this suit out on the ground that...
Last year Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute weakened this theory by crystallizing the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco and tomato plants. So far as scientists know, living matter never crystallizes. Thus...
Married- Angier Biddle Duke, 21, Yale junior, son & namesake of the late tobacco tycoon who left him. $5,000,000; and Priscilla St. George, 17, Tuxedo debutante, great-granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker: in Tuxedo...
...companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters...
...cure" is simple. The smoker must cease abruptly and completely. Whenever he wants to smoke, he swallows a capsule containing one-eighth grain of lobeline. This is a drug which smells, tastes and affects the human system almost exactly as nicotine does. Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with true tobacco leaves. Lobeline, however, is not habit-forming as is nicotine. Dr. Dorsey has never found it necessary for a patient to take more...