Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cotton: 46 payments over $10,000 in 1933; biggest, $84.000, to an Arkansas corporation. In 1934 at least two corporations received over...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...
Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. His committee's current investigation is the third that the cotton markets have endured in the last eight years. But no matter what the original purpose of the inquiry authorized, the Senator from South Carolina inevitably diverts it into an investigation of the most famed private citizen in Texas-William L. Clayton, world's biggest cotton merchant...
Anderson. Clayton & Co. can handle 2,000,000 bales of cotton annually, sells cotton in virtually every textile centre on earth. By now Senator Smith has detailed data on about everything Cottonman Clayton ever did since the day he was born in Tupelo, Miss. 56 years ago. Yet the most serious charge that the South Carolinian has ever been able to make is that Cottonman Clayton "dominated" the cotton market...