Word: tobacco
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From 1925 until last June Charles Irvin Dawson was Federal Judge in the Western District of Kentucky. From that bench he held unconstitutional: 1) Federal condamnation of land for slum clearance, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would...
Smoking Before Breakfast. During his discussion of stomach ulcers, to which he believes certain people are predisposed at birth, Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of Tulane University declared: "Excessive use of tobacco, especially between meals, on an empty stomach, is dangerous. Very bad is smoking in the morning before breakfast...
...which is apparently funnier to Slavs than Americans. The Lunts are circusing through "The Taming of The Shrew" for the Theater Guild and doing a first class job; this should be seen. "Three Men On a Horse" is now showing in Boston and also is reviewed in this issue. "Tobacco Road" as we all know is Erskine Caldwell's dark notes on the South and it begins to look as if New York is the only art center of the nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even...
Remarking that his Church's prohibition of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee is only ''advisory." Mormon Young said: "I've been on binges, of course, and smoked and done things like that, but that doesn't mean damnation...
...William and Mary chartered the institution, granting a fabulous cash endowment of well over $100,000, 20,000 acres of land, and an annual income that shot up like a pre-depression graph. This was garnered from an export duty of two cents on every pound of tobacco, another on all skins and pelts, an import tax on all liquors, and one-sixth of the fees of all public surveyors. Around 1750 this amounted to $15,000 annually, arousing the admiration and envy of William and Mary's poor, struggling contemporaries in the other colonies...