Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle the cigaret controversy which has aroused many doubting Thomases to rise in defense of the "saintly" Frances Elizabeth Willard in an effort to wipe clean her nicotine-stained fingers, may I offer this tobacco episode as presented by Miss Willard herself in her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years? The chapter head is "College Days," and the reference appears on pp. 116-117: ". . . I wish I had not had those months as a 'law unto myself,' though nothing worse occurred in them than I have told, except that one night Maggie and I dressed up as two pirates...
Died. Charles Ashby Penn, 62, vice president and director of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) and American Cigar Co., direct descendant of John, brother of William Penn; of gastrointestinal toxemia; in Manhattan...
...following an operation for gallstones; William Henry Meadowcroft, 78, longtime assistant and confidential secretary to the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), in West Orange, N. J.; Brand Whitlock, 62, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy...
...Japanese subject was lynched last week anywhere in territory controlled by the Nanking Government. In the International Settlement of Shanghai (which has its own police) one Japanese riding in a ricksha was knocked out of it by Chinese mobsters who later knocked in the fronts of two Chinese tobacco shops selling Japanese cigarets...
Lids Toro, president of Porto American Tobacco Co. since it was founded in 1899, resigned, also resigned as chairman of the company's two big subsidiaries, Congress Cigar Co. Inc. and Waitt & Bond, Inc. President James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...