Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abie's Irish Rose ran for 2,532 performances. Tobacco Road is in its sixth year. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona has been running since March 27, 1912, which is easily the longest U. S. theatrical engagement on record...
...Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., which controls eleven subsidiary insurance companies; of Santa Rosa Milling Co., Ltd., which has Chilean and Peruvian subsidiaries; of London & Northeastern Railway Co., Central Argentine Railway Ltd., the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., Crown Flour Mills, Ltd., United Baltic Corp., Ltd., of companies dealing in tobacco in Dublin, telegraph services in Africa...
Less humble was Tobacco Millionheir Angier Biddle Duke, 23, who, arrested last June for speeding near Huntington, L. I. (his fourth offense in two months), was last week fined $250, had his driving license taken away from him. Duke angered a Long Island justice of the peace by forgetting just how many times he had been arrested and how big were fines he had paid...
Died. Milton Herman Esberg, 64, tobacco tycoon (General Cigar Co.) and music lover, who boosted the San Francisco Opera Association to success; of heart disease; in San Francisco...
When "Wen" went to the State University in Bloomington in 1909 he soon became a practicing politician as well as a conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore...