Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though silk raising is one of the most important industries of Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal...
...successful indoor polo season in years, is expected to take the intercollegiate title handily, besides making a strong bid for the other two championships. The team will be slightly weakened through the loss of G. O. Clark '31 who has been declared ineligible because of scholastic difficulties. J. P. Cotton '29 and T. B. Glynn ocC, will both be used in Clark's stead. Their playing will hardly affect Harvards handicap ranking, the total handicap being reduced by only one goal. The ranking of 14 goals handicap is the highest ranking of any college team in the country...
...First of several Negro cinemas scheduled for imminent release, this picture has only one white actor in its cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa...
...Cotton, Copra, Broom Corn, Vegetable Oils, Hides. The American Farm Bureau Federation asked for duties on all these things as well as on bananas and horse-radish (above...
...Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas went charging off into the commodity mar kets and proposed to punish trading in cotton and grain futures with fines and imprisonment...