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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of Southern landlords, correctly informed by their lawyers that the cotton reduction contract has no legal teeth and does not bind them to maintain the normal number of tenants or to pass their benefit shares along impartially, found means of withholding the reduction fee, ousting tenants from the land. AAA now admits that whereas the pre-New Deal cotton income went 40% to landlords, 60% to tenants, the reverse ratio may now hold true. From a class and country where letter-writing comes hard, some 7,000 share croppers had by last week scrawled out despairing protests to AAAdministrator...
...Arkansas to see what all the trouble was about. Last week she reported to Washington. It was announced that the written part of her report was confidential, and the oral part was for the ears of Chester Davis alone. The United Press said: "Mrs. Myers, it was understood, uncovered contract violations which caused cruel hardships to part of the farm population. She found share croppers straggling along the highways, homeless and unable to obtain relief...
...family known as the du Ponts helped the Soviet Fertilizer Trust to build its fertilizer plants. The RCA accepted a contract to advise on radio matters. Among its directors are Cornelius N. Bliss and Major General James G. Harbord. Both these Bolsheviks are on the boards of Bankers Trust and "New York Life...
Lily Pons, 30, who made her stir four winters ago and already sounds tired. But she lately signed a fat three-year cinema contract with...
...continue to derive revenue just as they have in the past; by commissions on the volume of business done week by week. In other words, about $1600 in commissions will be paid to the ten salesmen who are members of the organization. And the same arrangement is secured by contract for next year...