Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked in Madison. Wis., why she gave up smoking, Anarchist Emma Goldman explained: "The first time I went to jail, they wouldn't give me any tobacco and I found it quite painful to break myself of the habit. Because I was never sure when I would go to jail again I decided I'd better not acquire a need for tobacco again...
Left. By Caleb Conley Dula. onetime president and board chairman of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., who died in December 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931): a net estate valued at $14,831,387; to his widow Mrs. Julia Q. Dula...
...this occasion the Smoker Committee secured the services of George Watts, a negro dancer; Raymond Pike, a juggler; and Lewis Mora, a magician. A large supply of pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, and refreshments were provided. When the Class had assembled Garrow T. Geer, Jr., toastmaster and Chairman of the Smoker Committee, introduced the three officers of the class: Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., president; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., vice-president; and Anthony S. J. Tomasello, secretary-treasurer, who made short speeches...
Thus of the 10-cent cigarette manufacturers the largest is owned 100 per cent by the British-American Tobacco Company, with offices in London, which in turn is owned about 33 1-3 per cent by The British Imperial Tobacco Company, and the remainder is scattered throughout the world, instead of being, therefore, a small independent unit trying to help the American Treasury get along, the chief proponent of the new tax idea is controlled and owned by a foreign concern...
...real object of the fight, it is asserted, is to break down the American companies into such fierce competition for volume that tobacco farmers will have to sell at a lower price. One of the large independent companies, wholly American owned, has telegraphed Senator Byrd of Virginia, that, while it makes a 10-cent cigarette and might temporarily benefit by the reduced tax, the situation that would be created would cost the tobacco farmers of Virginia and North Carolina alone approximately $30,000,000 a year through the effect it would have on tobacco prices...