Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Marys-Maria Magdalena, Maria Madre, Maria Cleofas-lie off Tepic on Mexico's West coast, 60 miles out in the Pacific. They can only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full...
Prime statistic is the weekly figure on car-loadings, vital index of the nation's business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June...
Joseph Potter Cotton, who gave up a $100,000 per year Manhattan law practice to be Under-Secretary of State...
Liberal though he was, in business he was keenly conservative. In Manchester, cotton city, he retained many a political foe as a personal friend by financing cotton interests, giving authentic reports of the industry. The late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects...
...President Hoover last week found three men to serve on his Federal Farm Board: James Clifton Stone of Lexington, Ky. (tobacco), Carl Williams of Oklahoma City (cotton), C. B. Denman of Farmington. Mo. (live stock). He hoped he would get three others, to whom he had publicly offered appointments: Alexander Legge of Chicago (business), W. S. Moscrip of St. Elmo, Minn, (dairy), Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles (fruit). The President was having difficulty finding No. 1 men for his board. An able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required...