Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans are bad losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...themselves in privacy and pondered well plans for "indirect taxation," which it is hoped will prove more acceptable to the Deputies and the electorate than M. Loucheur's scheme to extract eight billion francs a year from such direct and obnoxious sources as an increased tax on wine, tobacco and incomes...
...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...
...became a senator in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed Governor General of French Indo-China. From 1902 to 1904 he headed the Budget Commission. From 1921 to 1922 he was Finance Minister: also 1895-96. He is "self-made" and a bit vain of that fact; boasts that tobacco has never entered his system...
...Foods, liquors, tobacco...