Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record our solemn judgment that the habitual use of tobacco is a practice out of harmony with the best Christian influence...
...longer venture outside Suffolk, Va. without having his identity mistaken is the well-founded conviction of Suffolk's Mayor Otis S. Smith who told newshawks of his latest adventure. On a trip to Manhattan, Mayor Smith went one evening to see his old schoolmate James Bell in Tobacco Road. Between acts he stepped into a restaurant to buy cigarets. The master of ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General...
...midst of a desultory conference at his Wardha headquarters, Mahatma Gandhi peered at his dollar watch, stood up, hurried out into a blazing sun. Waiting beneath a tree in his orchard were Mr. & Mrs. James Henry Roberts Cromwell (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke). Gandhi shook hands, led them into a bare cell where they all sat on the floor. Voluble Mr. Cromwell began to expound his economic theories, argue for a "reformed capitalism." Gandhi thought that in India that would make a bad situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said...
...roundheaded Author Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre) lived in Georgia until about ten years ago when he moved to Maine. Either State would gladly cede him to the other. He outraged his New England neighbors by announcing that "the [Maine] population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom." His annual visits to his homeland affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles...
...Chronicle's Editor Thomas J. Hamilton promised to investigate the Caldwell charges, to report accurately, fearlessly. With the author's father, Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell of nearby Wrens, Ga. as guide, two Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have drawn the hot fire of Southern boosters. Dutifully the investigators described the worst cases they found...