Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared, tobacco-chewing County Judge Willie Bob Howard set the stage for Metcalfe's brief career as a cop. The judge took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
...Surpassing Texas Oilman Edgar B. Davis, who, some 20 years ago, poured $1,500,000 into a dismal play called The Ladder (789 performances) until he ended up giving all tickets away. Not comparable are Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances) and Tobacco Road (3,182 performances); both defied the critics with their lengthy runs-but eager customers put up the money...
...hand. It used to be a way of guaranteeing the farmer the purchasing power he had during the good years 1910-14; it was a lot more generous than that now, and infinitely more complicated. The Administration proposed to continue buying storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would let market prices for these commodities rise & fall with the tides of supply & demand. The U.S. Treasury would dole out to farmers...
...Stafford Cripps presented his 1949-50 budget. Under his severe guidance, Britain had sweated, toiled, and made a sensational recovery (TIME, March 28). Now, the nation felt, it was due for something more than the lights of London. Britons wanted lower taxes, continuation of cheap food, cheaper clothes and tobacco...
...black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality...