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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston liked This Woman Business. But then, Boston always has liked this woman business, so that its reception of the play imported from London for the Wilbur's stage is no great overturn of form. Ever since the days when Cotton Mather sent two wives to heaven with his Frendian nagging, Boston, whether she'd admit it or not, has been a matriarchy, up to the very beginning of the present Irish era; and now maybe it's Mother Machree who rules the roost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

...generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe as a rich mine." What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow's Columbiad, even though it may be "mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt...

Author: By K. B. Murdock ., | Title: Mighty Men That Were of Old | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Cotton Mather", Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

Relief. Eugene Meyer Jr., Chairman of President Coolidge's farm relief commission and Albert Calvin Williams, Chairman of the Federal farm loan board, began the President's relief plans by starting the formation of nine cotton finance corporations to serve twelve Southern states. These corporations will have a total capitalization of $16,000,000, against which the Government will loan $160,000,000 toward the storage of cotton. Farmers may borrow nine cents a pound on properly stored staple. Next year's acreage must be curtailed and diversified with crops; other than cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...when analogous overproduction occurred, the relief cry was "Buy a Bale." The present cry is "Wear Cotton." Last week the only woman judge in the South, Virginia Henry Mayfield, at Birmingham, put out a reason: The adoption by southern women of more cotton clothing, instead of sensuous silk, would reduce work in the divorce courts; the return to past styles would give contentment in the home and aid to the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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