Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
...Last week Tobacco Road played in Augusta, Ga., a few miles from the play's locale. To get the price of a gallery seat Tobacco Readers industriously picked beans, Playwright Erskine Caldwell's father, the Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell, shepherded them to Augusta for the show...
...layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were employed in pecan shelling, tobacco stemming, lumber and bagging...
Fact was that Democratic strength in Pennsylvania's black precincts was not so badly jeopardized as it appeared. Publisher Vann is a smart Negro-born in the tobacco-market town of Ahoskie, N. C. in 1882, graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...
...gifts contained poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany during the last year of the World War, is probably one reason why Leftist Premier Juan Negrin mentioned the possibility of mediation before the Spanish Parliament (see below...