Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway, danced in the Ziegfeld Follies. His press-agent publicized him as "the man with the laughing feet." Professionals rated him as the world's No. 3 hoofer (No. 1, Bill Robin son; No. 2, Fred Astaire). But his reputation never satisfied him until he played Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (TIME, July 2, 1934). Barton tried out for the part, was picked to succeed Henry Hull, who was going to Hollywood, where Barton later followed him. Barton arrived by train, sending his Lincoln across the U. S. with his bicycle and six of his 40 dogs...
When Kentucky-born John B. Hutson went to work for the Department of Agriculture a dozen years ago, he was a practical expert on tobacco and Henry Cantwell Wallace sat in the Secretary's chair. By last month pink-cheeked, grey-haired John B. Hutson had become not only the AAAuthority on tobacco but also on rice, sugar and peanuts and his old boss's son, Henry Agard Wallace, sat in the Secretary's office. Last week John B. Hutson was given AAA control over a fifth crop?the common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land...
...opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford to ... drive them all over into the potato field...
...other words, cotton control had put farmers into tobacco, and tobacco control had put them into peanuts, and peanut control had put them into potatoes. Potato Control was adopted as an AAA evolution to protect about 30,000 farmers who make their main living out of potatoes and do not want their crop invaded by other farmers whose land has been rendered idle by the other AAA controls. To give them that protection Mr. Hutson will have to regulate half again as many farmers as raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect...
Bache & Benefits. "We advise against snap judgment in disposing of any good utility stocks . . ." wrote J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers, last week. "It should be recalled that the dissolution of the Standard Oil Co., the American Tobacco Co. and various others by the Government, in the final analysis, showed substantial increases in the value of the securities composing those units." And there were others up & down the land who took an equally cheerful view of the future of utilities. Federal Power Commissioner Basil Manly predicted that, with the air cleared by the passage of the bill, utilities would spend...