Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three subjects which have been chosen for essays in the $1050 Babson Prize Essay Competition, have recently been announced as "The Forecasting of the Price of Wheat"' of "Cotton", or of "Lumber". Mr. R. W. Babson, founder and president of the Babson Statistical Organization, has given this money for the purpose of stimulating the interest of university students in statistical economics, business forecasting, and the stabilization of our economic life...
...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
King George at Buckingham Palace. Now he returns to the U. S. to test his native country. Roland Hayes began his life with the hard labor of the small farm-holding Negroes of the South. His parents owned a small piece of cotton land. The boy and his brother ploughed, chopped cotton, picked cotton. In time he contrived to work his way through Fiske University at Nashville. He had a pleasant tenor voice. He undertook vocal studies. He made a little reputation and began his professional career with a recital at Symphony Hall, Boston...
...rabbit with a cork leg, wobbly ears and a false eye, its bodily structure fabricated of brown cotton, is paying a visit to Portland, Ore. The reason for this animal's visit is the opening of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor on Oct. 1. The rabbit is there as the mascot of the greatest cigarmaker in the world's history ? Samuel Gompers...
...Rabbit, of whom the brown cotton bunny is a representation, was suggested years ago by Mr. Gompers' secretary, who detected a decided likeness between Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit and her chief. It was the play of wits between Br'er Rabbit and the enemies that sought to corner him that made the secretary think of the mental adroitness of Samuel Gompers in a similar situation. She found the rabbit "human looking, with a glint of knowingness in his eye, an all-pervading air of goodwill, an absence of bitterness in his make-up." So she purchased the cotton rabbit...