Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduction for meat, duty free oranges during four months (January through April), half off for grapefruit, one-eighth to one-quarter off the automobile tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single...
...Congressional sentimentalists have, for the past 37 years, supported the idea of independence for the Philippines. With the recent Hard Times, the issue became realistic. Cotton Congressmen were told by their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless...
...case of Jeff Bowers was not the only incident last week which showed that nine conscientious, overworked old men were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with...
Biggest moment of a busy week for every member of the Court was when once more it sat in judgment on the question of whether much of the New Deal is legal or illegal. The case arose over a bale of cotton numbered 407784. One night a year ago at Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Miss., Fred Hastings allegedly asked Jed B. Earner, a Negro helper, to steal cotton from the warehouse of Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. Black Jed quietly rolled three bales of cotton, one of them No. 407784, out of the warehouse. He confessed that for these services...
...Elliot Perkins, Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Dr. David Worcester, and Messrs. Donald B. Armstrong, Jr. 37, Frank C. Bosler '38, Thomas A. Buffum '37, Richard M. Ballou '36, Robert L. Bentley, Jr. '36, David C. Crawford '36, Richard J. Currie '36, S. Page Cotton '38, M. Hollingsworth Cornell '37, John L. Dampeer '38, Thomas H. Dowd, Jr. '36, Nicholas Friedman '37, William T. Glendinning '38, Wesley L. Furste '37, James E. King, Jr. '36, Ellis W. Jones, Jr. '37, John D. Ogilby '38, Frederick R. Pleasants 3G., Murray Richards uL., Ethan A. H. Sims '38, Peter L. Scott '38, John...