Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator William John Bulow of South Dakota, tobacco-chewing wit whom Will Rogers calls "funnier than I am." The Senate has yet to be shown...
...with which these reductions were hedged about. Cuba's exports of sugar to the U. S. are already quoted by law at 1,900,000 tons a year and tariff reduction will therefore not lead to an increase in the amount of Cuban sugar imported. The reductions in tobacco tariffs are conditioned upon a limitation of Cuban exports to the U. S. to an amount not exceeding 18% of the U. S. consumption during the previous year. And the tariff reductions on fresh fruits will only be effective during the months in which they are out of season...
...season were still running on Broadway. Veterans of the torrid doldrums, two were smut shows for summer visitors (Are You Decent? Sailor, Beware!), one was an uproarious comedy (She Loves Me Not), one was a revue (As Thousands Cheer), one was a local color drama (Tobacco Road...
...special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco at all. But no smoker could see what brand he was to puff...
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...