Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...list might induce gangsters to invade the farm. He earnestly wondered if the farmer's daughter would then be safe. This thought did not appear so frightening to Senator Vandenberg. Snorted he: "If the farmer who made that $298.000 for not planting so many thousands of acres of cotton has a daughter, she must be a girl without a soul. That farmer was a corporation." Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher chimed in: "It is unbecoming to the Secretary of Agriculture to behave and talk as though he were playing a low comedy role in vaudeville." Promptly Secretary Wallace explained...
...Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra will supply the music for the First Modern Arts Ball which will be given this evening at the Copley-Plaza Hotel...
...Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra will supply the music for the first Modern Arts Ball which will be given at the Copley-Plaza on Friday evening, April 17th. It is only part of the huge entertainment program which has been arranged however...
...Again, I understand the average cotton contract throughout the South is under $1,500. But I know, for example, about one cotton contract which paid $168,000 for not planting 7,000 acres...