Word: tobaccoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
Asked what he meant, Tobaccoman Hill said: "There were two chorus girls on the corner of Forty-Second Street and Fifth Avenue...
Duke University (Durham, N.C.) has used the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke's millions to build one of the architectural, if not intellectual, wonders of U.S. higher education. It is hardly a place from which would be expected to come the theory that Gothic palaces do not a university make. Yet last week in Duke Forest, about five minutes' walk from the Gothic campus, 32 Duke Law School students celebrated their return to a simple life. Like Abraham Lincoln, they began to study law in log cabins...
...stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman Thomas Wilson of Wilson & Co. and, curiously, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir. And for official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint to the N.A.M. council table-that...
Finally on the tenth try DeSota, 6-to-5 favorite, got away in front, with last year's two-year-old champion Twilight Song and Tobaccoman William N. Reynolds' Schnapps just behind. Twilight Song broke her gait at the first turn. By the time E. Roland Harriman's Farr had taken the lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota...