Word: cottonman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan Cottonman George Nichols and his Goose (defending champions) lined up against the slickest sloops of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, England and Germany...
Anderson. Clayton & Co. can handle 2,000,000 bales of cotton annually, sells cotton in virtually every textile centre on earth. By now Senator Smith has detailed data on about everything Cottonman Clayton ever did since the day he was born in Tupelo, Miss. 56 years ago. Yet the most serious charge that the South Carolinian has ever been able to make is that Cottonman Clayton "dominated" the cotton market...
Having thoroughly libeled President John Howard McFadden of the New York Cotton Exchange with accusations of unethical business conduct, Witness Brooks ripped into Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...
Divorced. Cottonman & Banker Nathaniel Farwell Ayer of Boston; by Mrs. Helen Draper Taft Ayer, niece of the late Governor Eben S. Draper of Massachusetts, onetime wife of Waldbridge Smith Taft who is a son of New York's famed Lawyer Henry Waters Taft and a nephew of the late President & Chief Justice; at Reno. Charge: incompatibility...