Word: reynolda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company at Winston-Salem, N. C. Two years after his birth in 1911, his father's tobacco company gave birth to the first package of Camels. While Zachary Smith Reynolds was growing up, a weak-chinned, moody child at his family's elaborate 600-acre country seat, "Reynolda," the U. S. entered the War. Out of the War came mass-smoking of cigarets, with Camels a U. S. favorite. In 1918, the year "R. J." died, Reynolds were producing more than 20,000,000,000. This accounted for the trust fund of $60,000,000 for the four...
...Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman. A week later they were secretly married in Monroe, Mich. Immediately afterward, Smith Reynolds set off to fly around the world in his own plane. When he got back, in May 1932, he and Libby Holman Reynolds announced their marriage in Manhattan. On July 6, at "Reynolda," Smith Reynolds and his wife gave a party, during which Smith Reynolds was found in an upstairs sleeping porch shot to death by person or persons unknown...
...evening of July 5 Zachary Smith Reynolds, eccentric 20-year-old son & heir of the Camel cigaret fortune, gave a small birthday party for a friend at "Reynolda," the family's 600-acre estate at Winston-Salem, N. C. Hostess to a dozen guests was his bride of seven months, 26-year-old Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds, shapely, olive-skinned "torch singer" of Broadway musical shows. Also on hand was Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19, athletic son of a local realtor. Smith Reynolds' friend and "secretary...