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...program devoted to boll weevil songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballad Hunter | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Last week a rough, tough little man with hair like a dirty cotton boll showed up at the picket line, began to march in the opposite direction. His sign read: "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." He was Abe Tikotsky, an electrical worker, once of Springfield, Ill., with a lugubrious voice and sore feet. He said: "These dopes ain't got no sense. . . ."A clean-cut youth from South Dakota, now working in the War Department, stopped by and said: "That's a wonderful thing you're doing, fella." "Fine," said Abe. "would you mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickets Picketed | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Forward of the squirrel cage was a lounge car for the "boll weevils" (local politicos); two diners (which became traveling nightclubs after the last speech of the day); a press lounge; car after car of reporters, cameramen, assorted camp followers. One of the most popular inhabitants of the train was Porter Foley, who could get there fustest with the mostest drinks. In one week he drew $40 in tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Story of a Train | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...shet of the boll weevils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire for Fun | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Externally he was a Harvard junior. Internally he was a boll-weevil in full operation. It seems that every movement has its Judas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

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