Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1929, I paid a very delightful visit to a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons in Constantinople. There was a banquet and facing me on the other side of my table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while...
Tycoon Alderdice is Managing Director of Colonial Cordage Co., Ltd. and on the boards of Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., Newfoundland Manufacturers' Mutual In surance Co.. Newfoundland Hotel Facilities, Ltd. and Newfoundland Motor Mutual Insurance Association. Returns showed that both Sir Richard and Lady Squires had lost their seats under an avalanche of votes that gave Mr. Alderdice control of 24 of the 26 seats in Newfoundland's House of Assembly. Though Squires did not resign last week his Cabinet was clearly doomed. During the campaign Mr. Alderdice talked of placing Newfoundland under a commission form of government...
...Denounced aggressive War, antiProhibitionists. Radio for commercial purposes on Sunday, tobacco advertising...
...second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
Marriage Revealed. Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman, 26, "torch-song" singer (Little Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...