Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of Johns Hopkins is a history, of great men. Its first was that Godfearing, champagne-loving moneygrubber, Johns Hopkins. His namesake University would give much this week to find another like him. Son of a Maryland tobacco planter whose Quaker precepts made him free his slaves and put his sons to work, Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love...
...TIME, July 18, 1932 et seq.). To his wife of seven months, famed Torchsinger Libby Holman, whose indictment for his murder was not-prossed, the court gave $750,000. To their posthumous child, Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage, went some $10,000,000. To Richard Joshua Reynolds, the dead man's brother, and to Mrs. Charles Babcock and Mrs. Henry Walker Bagley, his two sisters, went the $10,000,000 residue. Before any of it can be transferred...
...verses for $10 to $15 apiece, finally gained recognition with Just a Girl That Men Forget (1923). Hollywood salaries have tempted many of its songwriters to become "country gentlemen," raise blooded roosters, olive trees, avocados. Dubin recently bought an elaborate estate in San Fernando Valley where he still chews tobacco, sucks his corncob pipe...
...from which the cashier stole $93,000. Another told of a publishing-house cashier, a "weak, vacillating individual dominated by an extravagant wife," who stole $67,490 to keep up his social standing. Salesmen are instructed to emphasize the dangers of under-bonding, to cite the case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded for $10,000, stole $147,000. Then there was the case of the branch manager of a sewing machine company who indulged in padding his payroll, retaining cash collections, forging endorsements on checks, appropriating money received on sale of second-hand machines and keeping...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...