Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Library received from Sir John Mayhard "eight chests of books valued at 400 pounds". Among these naturally were many duplicates, and the Corporation promptly authorized the sale of "double books". Cotton Mather of the class of 1678, just out of College, keen to gather a collected of books which eventually exceeded in size and importance every other colonial library of the time, purchased 96 of these duplicates. Most of these books remained in the possession of his son, Samuel, and the latter's daughter, Hannah, well into the nineteenth century, when they passed into the possession of the American...
Returns by the Census Bureau of the final ginning report for the year shows that the last cotton crop amounted to 10,128,478 bales, close to the estimate of 10,081,000 bales made for the crop last December. This compares with a crop the preceding year of 9,762,069 bales...
...between the cotton-producing states, Texas led with 4,339,940 bales; North Carolina came second with 1,017,325; South Carolina was third with...
Harvard N. H. State Smith, r.f. l.g., Fernald Gordon, l.f. r.g., Nicora Raub, c. c., McKinley Samborski, r.g. l.f., Metcalf Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Cotton...
...Bernard Mannes Baruch, born Camden, S. C., in 1870. His father, Dr. Simon Baruch, a Spanish Jew, emigrated from Polish Russia, was a field surgeon in Lee's army. His mother was Isabel Wolfe, daughter of a widely respected cotton planter. Bernard entered commerce as a glassware clerk, studied law and medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared...