Word: cottone
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...Civil War, and returned to Georgia, where she married his brother and repeated the trip to Texas. Jones Connally, husband No. 2, became the father of Tom, of six daughters and another boy who died in infancy. After fighting through the Civil War, Father Connally settled down to raising cotton on the good black dirt of the Brazos valley near Waco. He prospered. But Tom, born in 1877, had to do his share of barnyard chores and pulling Johnson grass. He grew up hearing his father say over & over: "Tawm, I never had a chance for much education...
...despair about the chances of a great & good peace surviving Tom Connally's Senate, the patriot should recall one fact about the present Senate leadership. However backward-looking the South may be in other matters, it has depended for prosperity since colonial days on the sale of its cotton and tobacco in world markets and is traditionally outward-looking in the field of U.S. foreign relations...
...sang his way into a job as Shreveport's Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School in a class of three and attended a New Orleans business college. Later he got a B.A. at Pineville's Louisiana College...
Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
This week, just three days after Baruch submitted his report, Jimmy Byrnes dis closed that both jobs had been filled, by Executive order. Ex-Cotton King Will Clayton, 64, of Houston, resigned as Man Friday to Jesse Jones, became Sur plus Property Administrator...