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...current investigation is the third that the cotton markets have endured in the last eight years. But no matter what the original purpose of the inquiry authorized, the Senator from South Carolina inevitably diverts it into an investigation of the most famed private citizen in Texas-William L. Clayton, world's biggest cotton merchant...
Anderson. Clayton & Co. can handle 2,000,000 bales of cotton annually, sells cotton in virtually every textile centre on earth. By now Senator Smith has detailed data on about everything Cottonman Clayton ever did since the day he was born in Tupelo, Miss. 56 years ago. Yet the most serious charge that the South Carolinian has ever been able to make is that Cottonman Clayton "dominated" the cotton market...
Having thoroughly libeled President John Howard McFadden of the New York Cotton Exchange with accusations of unethical business conduct, Witness Brooks ripped into Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...
...what Clayton steps in and takes...
...York; Ralph T. Fuller, of Hudson Ohio; Frederick W. Heckel, 3d., of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Illinois; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Walter J. Bate, of Richmond, Indiana; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Missouri, Clayton J. Clawson, of Madera, California; Edger L. Haff, Jr., of Fort Edward, New York; Martin Lichterman, of Brooklyn, New York; William W. Minton, of Middletrow, Ohio; Walter P. Neumann, of New Britain, Connecticut; John Nevins, of New York City; and Harold L. Pinansky, of Portland, Maine...