Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aberdeen, N. C., M. S. Hawkins, tobacco "farmer," was sleeping in the cab of a truck which he had driven into a tobacco warehouse the night before, intending to unload and sell his tobacco the next day. Mr. Hawkins dreamed that he was crossing a railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through...
...that field he became Health Commissioner of New York State in 1930 upon nomination of his great, good friend and backer Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Largely for the same reason he became Surgeon General last spring, upon nomination of President Roosevelt. A Roman Catholic Marylander whose family has grown tobacco there since 1655. he has a strong craving for the gentleman farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping. His family estate lies close to Washington. But today he has little time for those avocations, or lor his family of four young sons...
...rich woman. Sarah P. Duke, widow of power-tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Duke, evidently was not greatly worried, for her will, probated last week, showed that she still felt able to leave a fat slice of her fortune to Education (see p. 54). The high cost of death taxes last week caused the anxious heirs of the late Harold...
...First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
Died. Mrs. Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, 80, widow of Treasurer Benjamin Newton Duke of American Tobacco Co., sister-in-law of American Tobacco's late great Founder James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke;, in Blowing Rock...