Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern Texas for a fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed...
...cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanuts) made similar recoveries of some $150,000,000. Thus the august Court had, in effect, declared a $200,000,000 melon for U. S. farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing...
...Congress wrestled long with the cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
Reason that second thought came easier to Congress than first thought: Study of the Supreme Court's majority and minority opinions in declaring AAA unconstitutional indicated that not only would the cotton, tobacco and potato acts be found unconstitutional but the Court's vote would probably have been unanimous. Instead of waiting to receive another judicial kick in the pants, New Dealers decided to discard the pants in advance...
...York City's Harlem, white Promoter-Preacher-Spiritualist Don Platt used an old candy store for a church and got three Negroes robed in white cotton over their street clothes to go into a doze on three cots set up before an improvised altar. He called it a "trance marathon." invited newshawks to ask the subjects what they saw in the spirit world. Subject John Epps reported that "George Washington says the New Deal is all right except for so much taxin' of the people. He's in favor of changin' the Constitution in favor...