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...great victory. . . . The plan will be very confusing!" snapped Senator Bankhead. When the market price of cotton slumped nearly 1? a Ib. on the news, their outcry rose to a roar. "I am embarrassed and confused!" exclaimed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton. To get enough votes to ensure victory the Cotton Senators teamed up with the Wheat Senators, helped jam into the bill a 90? Government loan...
...that point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...
Cliff Day had gaveled for order; a collection of $600 in nickels and dimes had been taken up in a tin wastepaper basket to pay for the hall; an Alabaman had made it clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore...
...city's brand new reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took the job. During the next five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them. And when he resigned in 1930 to become a vice president of Cincinnati's Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., he was the most famed city manager...
...team of 1892 which played two or three games a week, won the championship of the South, claimed the championship of the world. Player Biggs took to the law at Oxford, N. C., subsequently sat for four years on the State bench. During the Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another...