Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing. His Republican rivals have conceded that "he enters the campaign with great expectorations...
...Doris Podmore, model, last week sued American Tobacco Co. for $250,000 damages. Charge: her picture had been used without her consent in a "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before" advertisement; had resulted in ridicule due to her "delicate state of health,'' had caused a nervous breakdown, further ill health, severe depression...
...when only 29 Lawyer Smith, now "F. E." to every potent barrister in England, pocketed close to $200,000 as his outrageous fee for counseling British tobacco interests how to deal with America's then rampant tobacco tycoon, James B. Duke. To celebrate he took a bride from Oxford. She, Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, dutiful daughter of a canny old Latin Professor, had obeyed her father when he told her to put off marrying Freddy some years earlier, "because one meets so many rising young men who never seem to rise...
...Hindenburg to Deputies of the Reichstag and State Diets, to be cut 20%; 2) wages of all other federal, state and municipal functionaries, including German State Railwaymen, cut 6%; 3) rejuggling of taxation to avert an estimated $250,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year (the tobacco tax, for example, being raised $40,000,000) plus a $125,000,000 "Reform Loan" to be floated (probably by Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. heading an international group...
Violet ray treatment became a part of the toasting process some months ago, is now advertised for the first time. It consists of tumbling the tobacco in rotating drums at a rate which, according to the American Tobacco Co., gives each shred a three-second exposure to two arcs. No extravagant claims are set up for it, but unofficially it is said the process "may in general be interpreted as tending toward an indication of mildness...