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...Senator Stephen Arnold ("Little Giant") Douglas and President James Buchanan had not quarreled over slavery in Kansas, a united Democracy would have nominated Douglas for President at Charleston...
...sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
Wrigley gum jobbers in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North & South Carolina, instead of remitting their receipts to Chicago headquarters will deposit them in designated banks in New Orleans, Savannah, Memphis, Mobile, Charleston, S. C. With these deposits the banks will buy cotton under 12? per Ib. for December delivery. Wrigley gum sales in this southern area run about $12,000,000 per year, all of which Mr. Wrigley is ready to invest in cotton and leave in the South. If the South buys enough Wrigley gum, the company will be able to purchase...
...struggle to keep Beck Hall connected with the University, the announcement was made yesterday of the sale of the historic dormitory, the large brick building which stands between Harvard and Massachusetts Avenue with its broadside facing Quincy Square. The dormitory was sold to Harris Poorvu, Boston realtor, by the Charleston Five Cent Savings Bank, which had recently taken it over from the Beck Hall Trust a group of Harvard alumni headed by G.P. Davis...