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Later on, Fant's death restores America's good name. She still has her moments. She powders the webs of 100,000 Mississippi Bayou spiders with gold and silver dust for a treacherous daughter's highfalutin wedding. But the latter part of Drivin' Woman is an account of the bracing fight of the small tobacco farmers against the Trust. Descriptions of raising, grading, priming and selling tobacco result in a fragment of U.S. social-and-economic history so simple and sound that not even Mrs. Chevalier's panchromatic prose can make it much less...
...this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch type of political mongrel wafted to power by the illiterate and pitiable, was so wafted originally by persons paying such taxes. Next door to the bayou state, the great state of Texas whose elections have not seen the blemish of free voting for these many years, presents a noble line of public officials in support of the poll-taxer's thesis. From impeached governor to hill-billy bands, this record of public servants glitters...
...centre of a field controlled by the majors, he struck again, proved the northward extension of Anahuac, the second largest field on the Gulf Coast, sold out for almost a million. More McCarthy wells followed in West Beaumont, South Cotton Lake, Palacios, Benavides, League City, Anchor, Chocolate Bayou, Lovell's Lake. In seven years he has brought in more wells than any other oil man in the world...
Bitter was the feud in the all-Negro town of Mound Bayou, Miss., between Eugene P. Booze, Republican boss, and his sister-in-law Estelle Montgomery. Cause: both claimed ownership of the house in which Booze and his family lived. Eugene Booze apparently won the argument last month: in an altercation over a court order forbidding her to enter the house, Estelle attacked Booze and two white State policemen with a butcher knife, was shot dead...
...Eugene Booze, Mound Bayou's richest citizen, owner of thousands of acres of cotton and timber land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...