Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Word went around that an advertising representative of American Tobacco Co. had persuaded ten U. S. Senators to endorse Lucky Strike cigarets at $1,000 an endorsement. Newshawks scurried here & there buttonholing Senators to pin the story down. They made a lucky strike when they ran into North Carolina's Reynolds. Senator Reynolds, never one to hide his light under a bushel, admitted that he had endorsed Lucky Strikes, collected $1,000. Newshawks were surprised for two reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could...
...wily courtier Beaumarchais 1.000,000 livres, which was to reach America in gold and gunpowder. But when the commercial agent for Congress, Silas Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco. Paine refused to believe Deane's story, called him a "plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary," and Congress got rid of Paine to avoid exposing France's breach of treaty with England over the loan...
fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...
...picture. They had. he said, asked him "how it felt" and "how much he made from renting it out." When the jury came in, Mr. Burton was not $75,000 but $2,500 richer. Disappointed, his attorneys turned their attention to the case of Burton v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. which is to start this week with $200,000 asked...
...Hill, American Tobacco...