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Most spectacular rise of the year was Camel, whose sales were pulled back to the 1931 level after the disastrous sales results of temporarily abandoning newspaper advertising in 1932. Most spectacular setback was for Lucky Strike which lost 4,500,000,000 in sales. Standard Statistics estimates of domestic consumption from 1929 through 1934 (in billions...
...voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending for relief...
Behind Commissioner Valentine's flow of angry words surged the pent-up wrath of 31 years of police experience. He joined New York City's force at the bottom in 1903, suffered one Tammany slight and setback after another for his persistence in going after politically influential crooks. Big, grim, tough, rigidly honest, he got his chance when the LaGuardia reform administration took office...
...Only setback to the headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...
Beliefs: Labor is King. Unionization is Utopia. National issues are irrelevant, but nevertheless Roosevelt is a "strike-breaker." Election of Sinclair, a pseudo-Socialist, would be a setback to "radicalism...