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...faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price to $6.10. During the intervening months the costs of the feud were heavy and many a rumor spread that an agreement for its termination had been reached. Last week from the Winston-Salem (N. C.) offices of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. came an unexpected telegram that Camels had been boosted to their old price of $6.40. Chesterfields, Piedmonts, and Lucky Strikes followed immediately. From Lorillard came a statement that there were not enough officials in town over the weekend...
...Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...
...self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great...
...drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem Journal, the Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody of Texas. Roman Catholicism, anti-Prohibition and Tammany were, of course, in all Southerners' minds. Governor Moody was more polite than most when he centred his fire on Mr. Raskob, whom he called "a cynical commercialist with...
...eighteenth paper he had purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...