Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policies, swamped his opponent, Joseph W. Bailey Jr., who had canvassed vigorously against the New Deal, in a victory which was tantamount to reelection. A Congressman for twelve years before his election to the Senate in 1928, Senator Connally wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, chews gum or tobacco, makes able and frequent speeches in a syrupy drawl...
Your article re Camel cigarets [TIME, July 2] splendidly timed. A pity you did not give Mr. Esty both barrels if only for underestimating the intelligence of the readers of his silly advertising copy for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the naval station in the name of economy. The soldiers moved away, too. Pan American Airways out of Miami took the cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line...
...chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon ye bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once mutilated the English flag in order to destroy the "Popish" cross of St. George. Captain George Curwen, who in 1651 was licensed to sell "strong water" in Salem, scowled from a cracking canvas. He once remarked: "As a man dresses...
...Baruch's first coups was to buy control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan who was then forming his notorious Tobacco Trust. In 1901 he made a killing on the short side of Amalgamated Copper. Early in his career he was almost wiped out on the short side of American Sugar. In 1904 he got a commission of $1,000.000 for buying the Selby and Tacoma smelters for the Guggenheims. He added to his fortune by buying into the immensely successful Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. in 1909 shortly after it was founded. He made nearly half a million by selling...