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Each year when the Treasury's appropriation bill comes up, Wet Congressmen cite such tragedies as this, brand as "murder" the Government's policy of using poisonous denaturants, propose the abandonment of lethal ingredients in industrial alcohol, are overwhelmed by the Dry majority...
...snuff industry is dominated by three great companies. There is U. S. Tobacco Co. whose brand is famed Copenhagen. Last year this company earned $2,771,000, but the figure was swelled by returns from smoking tobacco including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered...
...more attractive editions are now the easiest to sell. This explains the present popularity of "N. by E." and "Moby Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett...
...being defeated by Southern California 41-12 last week, Stanford University suffered "the worst beating any college has ever given Stanford." For your information: on Nov. 19, 1921, at Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some 60,000 persons witnessed the affair. That was only nine years ago! The lineups...
...Lewis Stimson last week as he extended his fourth diplomatic recognition within 50 days to a revolutionary government in South America.* Practice had given him a technical perfection in dealing with these matters. Therefore he did not accord the provisional government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas in Brazil a brand-new recognition which the revolutionary change in administration warranted, but paid the new regime the higher compliment of continuing friendly relations just as if President Vargas had taken office by constitutional means...