Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charity: 'The best recreation is to do good." There will be opportunity for lighter pursuits "when the pale faces are more commiserated, the pinched bellies relieved and the naked backs clothed, when the famished poor, the distressed widow and the helpless orphan are provided for." That notorious moralist Cotton Mather wrote: "If any man ask, Why is it so necessary to do good? I must say, it sounds not like the question of a good...
Because Kefauver represented Tennessee and shared the predominating views of that state on segregation, he was not a Progressive Democrat on civil rights legislation; he spent his greatest energy defending the Tennessee Valley Authority from the clutches of private interest, much as other Southern senators would champion tobacco, cotton or whiskey. He lost many of his important legislative battles in Washington, and was even less successful on the national political scene. In 1952 and 1956 he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President; his only reward was the vice-presidential spot in 1956, from which he and Adlai Stevenson slid...
...demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds of banging pans, patriotic songs and chants of "Chile, si! Cuba...
...fact, free trade as an official U.S. policy is a relatively new phenomenon. One of the earliest bills considered by the U.S. Congress was a tariff act that was passed on July 4, 1789. In 1828, Congress sharply increased the rates via a law that was labeled by cotton-exporting Southerners and Western farmers a "tariff of abominations." During the post-Civil War era, tariff rates were generally kept high by Republicans. The G.O.P. policy culminated in the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, which set off an international trade war that deepened the world Depression. Only in 1934, when...
...Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes go on and on. For example, Chess Records was offered the rights to Elvis Presley, but refused it because "we didn't think of ourselves as a hillbilly label at that time...