Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco was picked for this first experiment largely because it is not a major U. S. crop and most of it is grown on solid Democratic soil. Then, too, though there are about ten important tobacco States, not more than four control any one of the various distinct types of this crop...
...They strike at those unable to defend themselves either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling of life and conditions as they see them, and the right to do so is guaranteed them...
What with the journalistic invective that greeted the arrival of the watered-down fit for Boston version of Tobacco Road, assailing it on grounds of rank indecency, and the very fact that it had been adjusted for the adolescent minds of the Hub city, the play which ran so long in New York will probably soon fade here. Crowded to the rafters on the first two nights by prurient sensation hunters, the theatre was only half filled on Friday, and unless a sudden renaissance is experienced, Henry Hull and Company had better make tracks elsewhere...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...
...front page of the august New York Times. For more than that no pressagent ever asked. First, President Reynolds buttered up his guests. "Your presence here tonight, ladies & gentlemen, is the best evidence I have yet seen as to the certainty of an impending building boom." declared the onetime tobacco man. "You must know that we men of business never have and never can create a boom. . . . It remains for the writers of the world to create the enthusiasm necessary to move men in mass. . . . The trouble with America is that the Stephen Fosters of the present generation have...