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...interesting letter in TIME. April 25, p. 10 in regard to "Rumanians & Popcorn" which informs us that dueling is unlawful in Rumania reminds us of the Non-Dueling Oath in South Carolina which each Governor has been required to take since 1881: When the present Governor, Ibra C. Blackwood, took the oath of office Jan. 20, 1931, he swore among other things that he would not engage in dueling during his term of office. Moreover all governors of the Palmetto State take the the oath that they have not engaged in any affair in the court of honor since...
First to Follow. In other Southern States last week cotton was also a major concern with Governors, politicians and planters. First to follow Texas was South Carolina (estimated crop: 929,000 bales) whose Governor Ibra C. Blackwood called a special legislative session for this week. It was the first extraordinary sitting of this assembly since 1914 when, in a similar crisis of 6¢ cotton, Governor Coleman Livingston Blease called the law-makers together...
Last week Governor Sterling called a special session of the Texas Legislature to consider a no-planting law. Governor Russell of Georgia said he would do the same. In South Carolina, Governor Blackwood promised a special cotton session. These three States, with Louisiana, produced about 7,500,000 bales out of last year's 14,000,000 bale crop. If all four voted no-planting-in-1932, the plan would still be some 3,000,000 bales short of the required 75% of total production. Alabama and Mississippi, however, could put it over...
...bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such a prohibition, however, would not be effective until States producing at least 75% of the country's cotton had acted. Governor Long and Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood of South Carolina left the conference talking about calling their Legislatures into special session at once to enact the required legislation...
...Miller of Alabama flayed the Farm Board's plan as "unsound, unwise and impractical." Declared Governor Gardner of North Carolina: "I'm opposed to making the Southern cotton farmer the goat. In this State we didn't plant any third row of cotton this year." Governor Blackwood of South Carolina found the plan "utterly impractical" as each planter would want to let the others do the plowing under. Mused Governor Long of Louisiana noncommittally: "Sounds pretty good-but damned if I know." Governor Murray of Oklahoma turned the plan down with the suggestion that a four-inch...