Word: cason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile men, freezing Japan's export quotas at 255,000,000 yd. for 1937-38. These visits stirred the shrewd and courteous Japanese to reciprocity. Last month Mr. Forbes became chairman...
...SHADE-Clarence Cason-University of North Carolina Press...
...book as Stars Fell on Alabama, though very mildly critical of the South, seemed to many an Alabamian a poor return for Southern hospitality. But last month Alabama and the whole South had a much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that its lines paralleled the facts but called...
...Author Cason was right about his countrymen's taste in reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph." Said he: "The Southerner reads the morning newspaper because he wants to know about the Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive...
...days before his book was scheduled to appear in Tuscaloosa bookstores Critic Cason sat in his office after hours, thinking over what he had written. Had he been too extreme? Would his neighbors consider him a renegade? Had he jeopardized a pleasant life for the doubtful fame of writing a controversial book? Finally Critic Cason found the answer. He put a revolver muzzle to his mouth, pulled the trigger...