Word: burley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other members of the cast are: Hugh S. Barbour '42, John Holdberg '42, Robert Stange '41, Arthur Cantor '40, Arthur Porter '40, Clarence Burley '42, Robert Markewich '40, Stephen Van O. Osher '41, Ben Gill '40, Rufus Mathewson '41, Norman Johnson '42, Charles Griffith '40, John B. Rand '43, John Darr '40, Hal Solomon '43, Herbert Weiner '43, Julian Lazarus...
Growers of dark and burley tobacco, 240,000 strong, last week voted on AAA's proposal to impose compulsory marketing quotas on their crops for 1939. Result: 61.2% Yes for burley, 60.5% Yes for dark, both short of the two-thirds approval necessary for the quota. Since flue-cured tobacco growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME...
...Burley and dark tobacco vote this week...
Salesman Lyon is Philip Morris' field commander. Its generalissimo is a man as different from him as Turkish tobacco from burley-a lanky, shy Virginian, Otway Hebron Chalkley. Vice President Lyon is breezy and backslapping, President Chalkley taciturn, reserved, at ease with finance and factory but not with strangers...
President Roosevelt's failure to indorse Governor Curley and Charles F. Burley, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, on his recent trip to Massachusetts, will have no appreciable effect on the election results next Tuesday, in the opinion of John W. Haigis, nominee of the Republican party...