Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...
These accomplishments were the nearest approach yet to the great dream of free world trade, long plugged by Cotton Millionaire Will Clayton, who resigned last month as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. But despite the Geneva agreements, Will Clayton's dream was still little more than a dream...
...tricky brace of Yale backs used everything in the books to gain an early lead. Two passes by Cotton Smith and John Robertson, and an end sweep by Smith accounted for the Eli's first-half tallies, but in two of the scores the Bine failed to convert, leaving the half-time tally 19 to 14 against the Crimson...
...criticizing my participation in a forum over WHDH on behalf of the Harvard Young Republican Club, Mrs. Jones rather lengthily bemoans the fact that such a latter-day Cotton Mather should "represent" Harvard. In this she does less than justice to Mr. Dick Hayes of Harvard the New England Regional President of the Students for Democratic Action who was on the same forum and likewise represented Harvard. One can only speculate as to what induced Miss Jones to overlook Mr. Hayes so completely; my "boorish" tactics certainly did not stifle him altogether...
...evenings when the sound of clinking silverware and guzzled soup makes Dunster House diners reach for the cotton, the salving melodies of Dunster's harmonious "Dances" comes floating over the table-tops like so much musical manna...