Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Hull, creator of the vitriolic role of Jeeter Lester, the tobacco-chewing Georgia cracker, in "Tobacco Road," who is now filling the part in the play's Boston engagement, tops the list of prominent persons in dramatic or literary circles who form the honorary advisory board of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Hull, who besides his immense hit in "Tobacco Road" has appeared in other successes such as "Springtime for Henry," will hold the position for five years. He attended a rehearsal of the forthcoming Dramatic Club production "The Wind and the Rain," inspected the sets, which have been designed by Alfense Ossorio '38, and gave a short talk on acting and the modern theatre...
Month ago the Virginia General Assembly passed this law. The South Carolina Legislature has it under consideration. North Carolina may possibly have a special session to act on it. Arch-enemy of the Roosevelt Administration that he is, Governor Talmadge of Georgia, the fourth state which produces flue-cured tobacco (used in cigarets), will call no special session of his legislature to pass a New Deal law. Therefore the Federal legislation provides that for 1936 the compact should go into effect if the growers of Georgia form an association to carry out a similar voluntary program and the other...
State compacts for the control of other kinds of tobacco are not expected to go into effect before...
...Deal can successfully develop tobacco control by means of the state restriction system, and if it can get another four-year term in Washington, conceivably this tobacco technique will be extended until it includes such major crops as cotton, wheat and corn...