Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Philadelphia sportsman-socialite, divorced husband of Mary L. Duke, tobacco heiress; and Margaret Hickman Schulze Biddle, daughter of the late Mining Tycoon William Boyce Thompson: a son; in Paris. Weight...
...Fairfield, Conn. John Vargo, who had sworn off tobacco for 38 years, accepted a cigaret from a friend, smoked it while he drove home. The smoke got in his eyes. He lost control of the automobile, ran off the road, was taken to the hospital with three broken ribs, a bruised head...
Engaged. Barbara Hutton, granddaughter of the late Frank Winfeld Woolworth (5? & 10? stores), next to Doris Duke (tobacco) the most highly publicized U. S. heiress; and Prince Alexis Mdivani of the much-publicized family from Russian Georgia,* divorced husband of William Astor's great-granddaughter Louise Astor van Alen; in Paris. To woo her the Prince went to Bangkok, Siam, accompanied her to Paris. To Paris sped Father & Mother Franklyn Hutton from Manhattan to inspect their proposed son-in-law, make him waive claim to any part of Barbara's inheritance...
...Domestic Allotment provision, due to the fact that President Roosevelt had inadvertently tied his own hands in the international field. Money to pay farmers to cut their crop production and thus boost prices was to have been raised by a tax on processors of wheat, cotton, corn, rice, hogs, tobacco and dairy products. To be effective domestically such a tax had to be counterbalanced by special tariff increase. Thus if a 2? per Ib. tax was placed on butter, 2?would have to be added to the regular butter duty to prevent importers from underselling the U. S. market...
Died, Reuben M. Ellis, 54. tobacco tycoon, president of Philip Morris & Co. (English Ovals, Philip Morris, Marlboro) ; of indigestion followed by a heart attack; in Manhattan...