Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WEAR W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES AND SAVE MONEY." He pegged shoes for $10 a month for eight years. Then he gave it up and worked in a cotton mill for 33 ? a day. He served in the Civil War and was wounded at Cold Harbor. At 20, he went West, and in Golden City, Col., set up a retail store, Studwell & Douglas, and advertised with an advertisement headed "INDIANS. If you want to outrun the redskins, wear Studwell & Douglas shoes." After three years, he sold out at a profit and returned to Massachusetts where he worked as foreman...
...would inevitably ensue. Consider the staggering spectacle of three hundred feeding students rising simultaneously to their feet upon the appearance of the lady of the day. Consider--but no. Why speculate on the impossible? Those grimaced Puritans who stare down from the walls would never tolerate such goings-on. Cotton Mather and the rest would revolve in their several graves...
...authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth-in-Fabric Bill, requiring the branding of woolen goods to show the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, silk, or other fibre in the fabric. A bill of this general type has been before Congress for 22 years. ¶The Purnell Bill to supply the Department of Agriculture with funds to further agricultural experimentation...
...opportunity of listening during the past two years to such speakers as James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, Julia O'Connor of the telephone workers of Boston, Robert Amory, president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers; John L. Barry, president of the New Hampshire Federation of Labor; J. Eads Howe, and many other leaders in industrial struggles. In the compulsory course for freshmen the students are plunged into the middle of the controversies concerning the negro problem, disarmament, socialism and the League of Nations by readings from...
...race was to appear publicly in their midst, Berliners were indignant. Protests were made to the American Ambassador against the "impertinence" of permitting a Negro to be heard on the concert stage, against the lèst majesté of offering musically scrupulous Berlin the tunes of the Georgia cotton-pickers. Hayes appeared. He sang his first number over the boos of several thousand public-spirited citizens who had come to witness his downfall. The house grew quiet. He sang a group of spirituals, then some songs in German, in French, Italian, Russian, English and one in Japanese. The applause...