Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although their lands were soon surrounded by coffee plantations, the Americans stuck to such familiar crops as cotton and melancia americana (watermelon). Hard work brought prosperity. Over the years the settlers intermarried with Brazilians and gave up their U.S. citizenship...
...executive committee of the National Interfraternity Conference had omitted the touchy question from the agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...
...time went on, hulking (6 ft. 3, 250 Ibs.) "Cap" Krug began to get into hot water. Word leaked out of an intricate financial transaction which gave Krug and his lawyer control of a Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...
...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call...