Word: bollings
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...Does that follow? Is one responsible for his name or his nickname? The reference to the 14th and 15th Amendments is as applicable to all the Congressmen and Senators of all southern states as to Mr. Upshaw. If Mr. Upshaw could find an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil, might not this also be true of many others? And Dr. Butler, if encaged in such an occupation, would not be furnishing an example of discourtesy to the youth of the land. He is not needed at Columbia...
...causes in the decrease in the number of farms are listed as: 1) ravages of the boll weevil, 2) migration northward of southern Negroes, 3) a series of dry seasons in part of the Northwest, 4) the consolidation of farms into larger units, 5) abandonment of farms because of adverse price conditions. The states showing chief decreases...
...speak of law enforcement above a whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...
Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
...Communism in America is comparable to the boll-weevil in the cotton fields. Both are importations and equally injurious...