Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though no Duke man would like to say so? the medical aspect of Duke seems bound to reach maturity and fame before the institution's other branches. Money can get results faster in medicine than in the less scientific fields of culture. The $40,000,000 which the late tobacco and power Tycoon James Buchanan Duke gave to little Trinity College of Durham, N. C. in return for taking his name (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925), will doubtless turn out many an able doctor before it polishes an important poet, will probably improve physically thousands of lives before it contributes much...
...birthplace of his sons Brodie, Benjamin Newton ("Ben") and James Buchanan ("Buck") was no log cabin but a farmhouse surrounded by 300 acres of good North Carolina land. In 1865 the Civil War was over; Wash was 45 years old, had 500 in cash and a bag of tobacco that Federal soldiers had left on the farm. This he sifted, labeled Pro Bono Publico, sold in Durham. Then he built a log cabin on his farm, made more tobacco, a great deal more...
...potent competitor: Bull Durham. Ever since North Carolina's famed "bright yellow" tobacco had been discovered, by chance, in 1852, the pipe and chewing tobacco trade had been booming, and John R. Green had made his trade-mark world-famed.* It was Buck Duke who urged that the family go into the cigaret business, then undeveloped. They employed the first successful cigaret-making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with...
Duke's Men. It is said that in the days of the great tobacco combine, when dashing young Pierre Lorillard left a director's meeting to join a group of fun-loving friends, James Buchanan Duke said quietly: "I think I'll have to buy me some friends sometime." But like all great tycoons, he could surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco...
...Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...