Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President himself considers that it is neither bad taste nor beneath the dignity of his office to use tobacco, surely he would not object to the consistency of being seen in the act of using...
...curiosity. Hearst's "Washington Chatter'' first First Lady in U. S. history to do so First female resident in the White House to smoke: "Princess" Alice Roosevelt (at first surreptitiously, later in public). First First Lady to smoke: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. But she cares little for tobacco, uses it to put her guests at ease.-ED. Man of the Year Sirs: For the Man of the Year I nominate our Chief Justice, Charles Evans Hughes...
...auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...
Three chief kinds of tobacco grown in the South are "bright (flu-cured)," "burley," and "dark fired." Over three months ago when "bright" tobacco started to market in North and South Carolina prices were down around 10? to 12? a lb. In August North Carolina's Ehringhaus proclaimed a holiday, stopped proceedings for three weeks to give Federal Farm restriction efforts time to finish plans for next year's "bright" crop, to give other Federal agents time to get U. S. cigaret companies to agree to a minimum price of 17? per pound. When the markets reopened prices...
...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...