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Nobody knows how Bug Tussle, Ala. got its name. Its 300 citizens, mostly cotton farmers, rather think it refers to their annual battle with boll weevils...
...blind Olin Montgomery, 24. To Lawyer Liebowitz they were not only four innocent brands plucked from the burning, but four more celebrities added to the roll of 132 accused murderers and others whom Sam Liebowitz boasts of saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose mouths are slits . . . whose eyes pop out at you like frogs', whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy." He had faced witnesses with the uneasy feeling that "one can never tell when one of those hill billies [among the spectators] will pump...
...would. He made his Texas Midland a model railroad boasting the first electrically-lighted coaches in the State. Any promising enterprise attracted his backing: cattle and farm lands, business buildings, oil wells, mines. And in nearly every venture he was successful. His hobbies were innumerable: racing automobiles, photography, boll-weevil eradication, stamps (his collection was the world's largest), astronomy...
...letter came announcement from the Cathedral of his successor, quietly chosen long ago to bring new blood to the white fane on Washington's Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both students and hillbillies in the nearby...
...comes out of the ground. Eight to ten bales of cotton are required for each mile of road. If all bituminous resurfacing were done with cotton, a market for some 400,000 bales would be provided annually. Latest development in cotton is an experiment in converting the entire plant-boll, pod, leaves and stem-into cellulose...