Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parity price payments to farmers growing cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, and rice...
Most of the cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
Political lightning struck Iowa when Harry Hopkins, boss of WPA and a sitter on the New Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...
Kentucky Moonshine (Twentieth Century-Fox) presents the Ritz Brothers bodaciously aping the feuding, corn-swilling hillbilly-o of the cartoon-strip clan. For the most part a lather of Ritz-Brother grimacing and guggling, this Hollywood picture of hillbilly doings is typically untypical...
...last year Dick Whitney again was scratching for pennies. Between May 19 and the end of the year he got a succession of bank loans-$50,000 from the Corn Exchange Bank, $75,000 from the Marine Midland, $75,000 from the National City, $100,000 from the Continental Bank & Trust, $80,000 from Public National-all against worthless stock in defunct companies. Apparently the Whitney front was so impressive that even these hard-boiled Manhattan banks never checked up on him at all. These loans he managed to repay...