Word: bolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative hobby: Laws against cotton speculation, the boll weevil and Federal crop reports which depress cotton prices. His friends consider him the Senate's "cotton expert." He publicly complained that President Hoover put no "real cotton man" on the Farm Board...
Litigation in Queens., N. Y., last week revealed that Passenger Levine once bought an $18,000 diamond bracelet for his friend, Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll...
...Washington, President Hoover described the appearance of Halterophora capitata as "a grave emergency." He called upon Congress to authorize the transfer, from the Department of Agriculture's boll weevil fund, of $4,250,000 to fight the Florida fly. The House complied promptly, last week. The Senate took its time...
...complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other faction. Out of China should come something of great moment to world history before long, but to contemporary eyes it is still a witches' cauldron ever threatening to boll over...
...unusually large cotton acreage suffered unusually from boll weevil...