Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT?1904 Nominator?Frank S. Black* Seconders?Albert Jeremiah Beveridge George A. Knight* H. S. Edwards William O. Bradley* Joseph B. Cotton Harry S. Cummings
...Adopted a resolution ordering the Tariff Commission to inquire into the cotton textile industry...
...report is one of a series from the University of Nanking, a missionary institution supported by several different denominations. The report was written by Professor J. B. Griffing, B. S., formerly cotton expert at the University of Arizona...
...having an interesting time improving the Chinese cotton, introducing American varieties, hunting down bugs that destroy the crop, finding great unplowed tracts that were laid waste more than fifty years ago by the Taiping Rebellion, making friends with farmers in summer institutes...
...modern missionary is interested not only in saving the souls of the Chinese but also in improving the conditions under which they live in this world. Poverty is one of the greatest curses in China. If we can improve the cotton crop we can relieve some of that poverty. This man Griffing, out in the wilds of Arizona, would probably never have been influenced by a call to go to China as a preacher, but he was stirred when they asked him to go out to work as a missionary scientist...