Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...
...conservative Democrat, Banker Hanes is capable, hardworking, no pioneer. His family has not needed a pioneer since the late textile tycoon John W. Hanes Sr. piled up a fortune in the Hanes Hosiery Mills, invested most of it in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). From him Son Hanes inherited about half a million dollars. But neither he nor any of his brothers coasted on their inheritance. All of them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick...
...leaf of flue-cured tobacco has sold this week in all North or South Carolina. Nor last week. Nor the week before. Tens of thousands of Carolina farmers could get no ready money. It was like the Midwest in drought time. Banks could not collect fertilizer loans or mortgage payments. Storekeepers were passing out pints of kerosene on credit...
...trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco-quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric; constantly he saw Borah and McNary; constantly he smiled his Kewpie smile with the air of a cat set for cream. La Follette's crisp battle-slogan: "We'll fight this thing from Hell...
Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 21, grandnephew of tobacco-rich James B. ("Buck") Duke, founder of Duke University; and Alice Noel Rutgers, 19, one of whose forebears was land-rich Colonel Henry Rutgers, benefactor of Rutgers University; in Rumson...