Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped into a tobacco store to buy and light a cigar. The store's owner had ignorantly connected a small 6-volt electric cigar-lighter to a high-powered city current. Schall put his face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...
...built with as much persistence as they prayed. A striking fact is that the Mormons did not dig in the ground 'for metallic wealth but concentrated on husbandry. They made a desert bloom. A good Mormon, and the "good" percentage is extraordinarily large, abstains from tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor. He pays a tithe (one-tenth) of his entire income to the Church. He hearkens to the Mormon proverb "the glory of God is intelligence." Thus does the Church seek health, wealth and wisdom...
...Luckies had fallen back on their toasting campaign only when the Federal Trade Commission ordered them to stop using "fake testimonials and specious argument that all can keep slender by smoking that brand of cigarettes." The Camel advertisement also objected to the inference that the cigaret industry used "rank tobaccos" with harmful irritants, saying, in effect, that while George Washington Hill could legitimately discuss the rank tobacco in Luckies and its improvement by toasting, he should not attribute such rankness to the industry as a whole. Concerning toasting itself, the Camel copy said...
...publication of a fake testimonial is no greater perversion of the truth than to imply that the heat treatment of tobaccos is an exclusive process with any single manufacturer. . . . Whether or not a manufacturer . . . attaches a contrivance to his heat-treating machines to catch . . . the vapors . . . can have no more effect toward improving the tobacco than your catching . . . the vapors that come from your teapot would have toward improving...
Previous Camel advertisements have been consistently conservative, with an impersonality in marked contrast to the advertising of Luckies. Indeed, the Lucky advertising has usually been read almost as a series of unsigned manifestos from George Washington Hill, the Napoleon of American Tobacco Co. However, neither William N. Reynolds, Camel chairman nor Bowman Gray, Camel president, has emerged from a corporate reputation to become a popular figure in the public...