Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with him. The cotton farmer who tried to defy the old AAA's crop restrictions was always trapped by the old Bankhead Act which stopped him at the gin with a penalty tax on his nonquota cotton. The Soil Conservation Act lacked a Bankhead Law to enforce obedience. Therefore it was definitely news last...
...nationally famous orchestras drew a crowd of 200 couples and 100 stags to the Kirkland House Spring Dance last night. Cab Calloway and his original Cotton Club orchestra were featured, with Irving Aaronson's Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting band formerly with Bing Crosby, alternating during the Cab's intermissions. Dancing ran from 10 to 3, with a buffet supper after midnight...
...Kirkland House Committee announces that Irving Aaronson and his Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting orchestra from New York, will be added to the congregation of entertainers at the Kirkland House Spring Dance tomorrow evening. Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra will hold the spotlight for dancing in the Junior Common Room with the Commanders alternating from the Dining Room. Amplifiers will assure continuous dance music in both halls from 10 o'clock to 3. Admission is $5 a couple and $3 stag...
Delighted, therefore, was Senator Smith last week when Louis Brooks, a member of the New York Cotton Exchange and onetime member of its business conduct committee, uprose at Washington hearings to storm: "The wrong committee is investigating this situation. It ought to be . . . the Department of Justice...
Having thoroughly libeled President John Howard McFadden of the New York Cotton Exchange with accusations of unethical business conduct, Witness Brooks ripped into Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...