Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the college year 1935-36, tobacco to the tune of $46,000 was smoked away by undergraduates, a sum capable of paying the tuition and board of some forty odd students. This salient fact is based chiefly on the assumption that about 70% of the student body are partisans of Demon Nicotine. The figures released by Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, show that in the Eliot House Grill and the House Dining Halls together, $11,185 in cigarette sales was taken in last year...
Strangely enough, the profits of the House Dining Halls and the Union which were recorded for last year, amounted to $46,152.86, a figure practically identical with that of total tobacco costs among the undergraduates. This sum is accounted for in the annual budget under the head of Student Employment, and is regularly anticipated...
...Witty, tobacco-spitting John William Bulow, first Democrat ever elected Governor of South Dakota, went to the Senate six years ago. He will be there no longer, for Republican Chandler Gurney, operator of radio station WNAX won his seat in a startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator...
...beginning there were no Sachs in Goldman Sachs. Today there are no Goldmans. The business dates back to 1869 when the late Marcus Goldman started to buy from Manhattan tobacco and diamond dealers the promissory notes given them by their customers. Clapping the notes in his high black hat, Founder Goldman would then make the rounds of the banks, selling the notes as short-term investments at a slight profit...
Died. Mrs. Katharine De Voe Cowles, 32, daughter of President John M. De Voe of U. S. Tobacco Co.; after swallowing tablets of bichloride of mercury; in Greenwich, Conn...