Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is the long struggle of the Southern sharecropper for the right to buy food, gin & sell his part of the cotton crop wherever he wants, instead of where the landlord wants. Still older is the story of the sub-subsistence living level of some 2,000,000 Southern tenant farmers. But a newer and somewhat brighter tale is that of the incipient cropper colony movement, both public and private...
...among them were concerned if the market price for livestock for the moment justified the overgrazing of pastures, or a temporary boom in the price of cotton or corn tempted them to forget that rotation of crops was a farming maxim as far back as the days of ancient Babylon...
...books of Bowes Inc. would show by September a weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie shorts; and 14 traveling shows or "units...
...Elected president of the New York Cotton Exchange was John Chester Botts, stoutish, stolid partner in Jenks, Gwynne & Co. He succeeded little John H. McFadden, who, in addition to his duties as head of the Cotton Exchange, has had to spend a vast amount of time satisfying the curiosity of South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and an inveterate investigator (TIME, April...
...succeed retiring President Robert W. Capps, the New York Produce Exchange elected John McDonald Murray, a Canadian-born onetime schoolteacher. He got his first job in the U. S. with Southern Cotton Oil Co., around the turn of the century worked up to head the foreign department. Shifting to brokerage in 1920, President Murray is now with H. Hentz & Co., handling their cottonseed oil business...