Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stewart's School, Charleston, the University of South Carolina (one year), Wofford College, Spartanburg, from which he was graduated, and Vanderbilt College which prepared him for the law (though he took no bar examinations). He served four years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving...
Legislative hobby: Laws against cotton speculation, the boll weevil and Federal crop reports which depress cotton prices. His friends consider him the Senate's "cotton expert." He publicly complained that President Hoover put no "real cotton man" on the Farm Board...
...regular" Southern Democrat in his votes. In the minority, no famed legislation bears his name. His manner is at times brusque and rough. He is not a keen politician. Impartial observers rate him thus: A conscientious and hard-working legislator who has specialized on one line (cotton), lacking brilliance and breadth to make him an outstanding Senate figure. His speech and thought have not kept pace with a changing South. His term expires March...
Pointing with pride to the past, the Cotton Textile Institute did not forget the future...
Said President Hines: "The industry is fully alert to the necessity for maintaining cotton in a prominent position in the high-styled field in order to keep this market in advance of the volume market ... I believe that the industry appreciates the results of these special [Institute] efforts . . . and will wish to continue and enlarge the program...