Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into alleged violations of the Anti-Trust Law by the American Tobacco Co. and the General Electric Co. (See Page...
...dreams any longer of taking a drink, the reformers have turned their attention to the evil of smoking. As steps to its complete abolition, they propose prohibition of smoking in public places, especially restaurants and theatres, the omission of smoking scenes from moving pictures, and forbidding the advertising of tobacco products...
Case after case of the evils of the tobacco curse will fill the newspapers. "Jones, crazed by smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home...
...study. The second does not pursue any one subject for any length of time, but flits about from Boccaccio to George Moore, takes all the "appreciation" courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs, and so on. I believe that all these types exist at Harvard, although it must be remembered that strict classification is specious and that hybrids also are present...
...Coffee, tea, tobacco and liquors were entirely out of the question. . . . My young companions spent their leisure hours, particularly in the evenings, in amusement houses of one kind of another. I could not pay even a thought to passing my time in that way. All my spare time was used in walking through the woods or in running...