Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress wrestled long with the cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
Reason that second thought came easier to Congress than first thought: Study of the Supreme Court's majority and minority opinions in declaring AAA unconstitutional indicated that not only would the cotton, tobacco and potato acts be found unconstitutional but the Court's vote would probably have been unanimous. Instead of waiting to receive another judicial kick in the pants, New Dealers decided to discard the pants in advance...
...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message advising repeal of: 1) the Bankhead Act, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the Potato-Control Act, which Washington has assumed would be found unconstitutional as soon as the Supreme Court got around to them. The President's reason for repeal: They are now useless having been "auxiliary" to the late...
Last week a hunting party of three men set out to shoot quail near Greensboro, N. C. They were Samuel Clay Williams, board chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and a onetime NRAdministrator; President William Adger Law of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; A. L. Brooks, a Greensboro lawyer. Walking through a patch of honeysuckle, Hunter Williams tripped. His gun went off. The shot hit Hunter Law, 20 feet away, in the left leg. It took almost two hours to get Hunter Law, 71, to Siler City for first aid. From there he was hurried to Greensboro where...
...annoyed at canned beer. But Owens-Illinois' President William Edward Levis did not take canned beer lying down. Last week he announced the purchase of two tin can factories-Tin Decorating Co. of Baltimore and Enterprise Can Co. of McKees Rocks, Pa. Tin Decorating, a subsidiary of American Tobacco Co., manufactured tobacco cans. For it Owens-Illinois paid $3,320,000 cash. Enterprise Can made a general line of cans, not including beer cans. The two companies, and possibly others to be added, will be organized into Owens-Illinois Can Co. To run his new company, Mr. Levis picked...