Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another qualification has usually been an extensive record of party service. Colonel Harvey helped to engineer the coup by which Mr. Harding was nominated at the Republican Convention in 1920. It was in his rooms in Chicago, hot and filled with tobacco smoke, that at three a. m. on a June morning the agreement was made which produced the nomination. Similarly Ambassador Child spent the Summer of 1920 in Marion editing Senator Harding's speeches. Similar services were rendered by Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France, and by Charles B. Warren, Ambassador (since resigned) to Tokyo. President Coolidge...
Cigarettes and '27 corn cobs will also be a feature of the evening. Large savings in tobacco are expected as a result of having all three gatherings on the same night...
...begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed to Gutenberg and Alden and their successors. Immediately one rushes to the book-case to choose the most lasting friends, and perhaps hastens to lay in a stock of tobacco. For it is a truth that he who can read for pleasure is well fortified against the vicissitudes of life...
...Becoming lawyer for tobacco smugglers and accepting huge fees in return for which he protected them against prosecution by the Spanish tobacco monopoly...
...Illinois, Michigan) paid more than half of the total Federal taxes, $1,315,769,011. ¶Taxes on medicinal liquor and manufacturing alcohol fell from $79,000,000 to $40,000,000 from the previous year. ¶The increased consumption of cigars was 8%; of cigarettes, 33%; of smoking tobacco, 4%; of snuff, 3%; of playing cards...