Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped him. In October he drove up to Washington, following a barrage of telegrams and letters, and made life miserable for White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from...
...Havana, Boss Fulgencio Batista announced the upshot of his last month's trip to the U. S. : a new U. S.-Cuba trade treaty, with concessions to Cuban sugar, tobacco, potatoes and rum in return for concessions to Louisiana rice and other products...
Once a decade, by some freak, an Abie's Irish Rose or a Tobacco Road bobs up and refuses to sink for several seasons. Once a decade there may be an opening night, like that of What Price Glory? in 1924, when an audience stamps, shouts, weeps from excitement, and refuses to leave the theatre. Once a decade some young playwright who was yesterday unknown, not merely succeeds, but overnight arrives for good & all. Eugene O'Neill did it in the early twenties...
Then Witness Hill went into his advertising philosophy: "From time immemorial tobacco has been considered as a companion of men. Within recent years it has also been considered a companion of women and it makes for companionship between the two. . . . We have innumerable stories of the relaxation and the relief...
...success or failure of it, and I didn't have a reason for it. I went over to the factory one day . . . and when I got within three blocks of the factory it was very apparent to me the delicious odor and aroma of the tobacco as it passed through the toasting machines. ... I said to my father, 'There is something to that process and I cannot express it.' He says, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'He cooks it, cooks the tobacco.' My father says, 'That doesn't mean anything...