Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
...Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. was pretty, brunette Cornelia Ann Larus, 20, daughter of Richmond Tobacco Tycoon Lewis Griffin Larus (Edgeworth...
...join us and all the time to talk of the theatre and eat my sandwiches. Bless my soul, sometimes I think I could break a commandment with this fellow! Yet he tell us many interesting things for I hear that Henry Hull and the cast of Tobacco Road may come to the Dunster House costume ball on the 14th; and that Haila Stoddard ("Froggie" as he does call her) may come dressed in her role as "Pearl". This should be a party in the best Dunster tradition...
...Before going to Manhattan to argue the theory of New Deal economics, President Roosevelt put his signature to a new law empowering states to enforce compulsory crop control of tobacco (TIME, April...
Significance- Simple was the explanation of Puerto Rican chagrin: 90% of the island's exports (chiefly sugar, tobacco, citrus fruits) go to the U. S. Most welcome of the island's imports are dollars from the U. S. Treasury. Independence would cut off both...