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...Wofford College, Spartanburg, from which he was graduated, and Vanderbilt College which prepared him for the law (though he took no bar examinations). He served four years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office...
...Congress: He has served continuously in the Senate since March 4, 1909. Only five Senators are senior to him in length of service. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), the Jones (Five & Ten) Law (1929), the 15 cruiser-construction bill (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Radio Control...
...votes Dry, drinks Dry, rarely talks Prohibition. Because of a deadlock he, a Democrat, was chosen chairman of the Republican- controlled Senate Interstate Commerce Committee during the 68th Congress...
...crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon the U. S. to compensate Florida citrus growers for loss of property incident...
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, Chairman of the Senate's Naval Affairs Committee, declared, however, that the President was legally powerless to interpose an undue delay in carrying out the will of Congress. The altercation harked back to the last administration, when President Coolidge vainly sought to induce Congress to eliminate the mandatory time-clause from the building bill to meet just such an emergency. (TIME...