Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good, strong talk-the kind of back talk Congress got from World War I's tough Supplyman Charles G. Dawes-came this week from Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers. The Senate Agriculture Committee, loaded with cotton Senators, called him on the carpet. His crime was that he had planned to expand rayon production to get enough fabric for military tires-instead of substituting cotton, which is likely to overheat. Jeffers promptly threw the carpet over his hecklers' heads...
Southern Senators like South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith glared: Why not hold up the program until experiments could be made with cotton...
Everybody, white and Negro, paraded from the school grounds to the ball park: seven bands, Future Farmers, 4-H Club members, New Farmers, school classes, cotton trucks, wagonloads of farm families, an infantry company packed with home-town boys. Everybody had fun, but everybody walked humbly in the sight of the Lord...
Some of the businessmen who will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant to the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...organized an industrial department for New York City's Liberty National Bank (later merged with New York Trust Co.). As it turned out that was a prophetic decision: in the bank he got to be pals with Ferd Eberstadt, who was then practicing law with McAdoo, Franklin & Cotton...