Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...products (TIME, May 13). Contrariwise, handlers who hate the AAA have launched a determined counter-drive to make Congress reduce instead of extend AAA's sway. Peak of this agitation came last month when a delegation of New England Governors went to Washington wailing that unless the cotton processing tax was withdrawn, their states' textile industry would be ruined (TIME, April 22). At that time AAAdministrator Chester Davis told a friend: "Well, there's one lobby you haven't heard from. That's the farmers. And when they come...
...beneath his pearl grey ten-gallon hat. A tall, loose-jointed, deep-drawling farmer of 46, Cliff Day has a wife, six children and a 320-acre farm which has been judged "best-balanced" in the State. When AAA came along, Cliff Day was made Chairman of the State Cotton Advisory Board and Hale County...
...Cotton Committeeman. And when processors began sniping at the cotton tax, Chairman Day and some of his public-spirited neighbors decided to invite representatives of the nation's farmers to rendezvous with them in Washington to "demand continuance of AAA and to point out the benefits already accrued them." The benefits were realistic. Hundreds of thousands of farmers like Cliff Day had dipped into...
...Department of Agriculture Building. Shortly after sunrise a column of men with horny hands, brown faces and shaved necks climbed down from the Pullmans, filed into the Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff Day's convention with a will...
...Come up here, you Georgia Crackers!" 75-year-old W. A. Shiver shouted through his snowy, walrus mustache. This tieless cotton farmer from Cairo, Ga. also launched a running tirade against his fellow-Georgian, anti-New Dealer Governor Eugene Talmadge, crying: "We ain't got no Governor, but we're here anyhow...