Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, across the Rio Grande at Juarez the Mexican Confederation of Labor was holding its sixth annual Convention. That afternoon, the Mexican delegates, 1,000 strong, marched across the international bridge into El Paso. There came agrarian delegates, sandaled, in white cotton suits, with pink and orange scarfs and straw sombreros; there came industrial delegates in overalls ; there came white-collared workers in white collars; there came women workers in orange and white blouses with black shawls. Straight to Liberty Hall marched the Mexicans and entered amid cheers. The leaders of the parade, one of them carrying a Mexican flag...
...shoe factory, at 21 to the Law School of Boston University. He began to practice in New Bedford, later in Boston. In 1902, he went into the textile business, constructing the Butler Mill in New Bedford. His connections increased. The Butler Mill was followed by the New Bedford Cotton Mills Corporation, the Quissett Mill, the Hoosac Cotton Mills, the Newmarket Mill, the Consolidated Textile Company. By 1912, he abandoned the law completely for business. From textiles he went into street railways, insurance, banking. He became associated in politics with Calvin Coolidge, helped win that gentleman the 1924 Republican presidential nomination...
...significance of this achievement to the Atchison as the premier southwestern road, it also should have a great bearing upon the future development of its traffic territory. The road not only brings California fruits into Chicago and the eastern centers of consumption, but is also essential to southwestern cotton planters, wheat growers and cattle raisers. By producing either double track lines or else alternate routes between the southwestern centers of production and Chicago, traffic congestion is prevented, speedy freight service insured, and particularly a wider market for perishable western fruits is provided. The Atchison's building program...
...Saint with an Ulcerated Tooth, Adam and Eve (Adam looked like a lemon), Husband Splitting His Wife's Head with Hatchet (this sympathetic piece priced at $300), A 110-Fear-Old Woman Playing Solitaire (price $250). The nude is eschewed as oldfashioned. Female figures appear exclusively in cotton underwear...
...domestic politics, the Baldwin Government will probably reimpose the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12), because they afford some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...