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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor. The Man of the Year scrapped one Labor Board and founded another to enforce industrial-labor peace through collective bargaining. He labored diligently to prevent automobile, steel and cotton textile strikes, to settle bloody labor altercations in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toledo. But strikes cost the lost of 20,888,000 man-days of work in the first nine months of 1934 compared to 9,456,000 man-days loss in the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man of the Year, 1934 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Montgomery, Ala. cotton merchant who went to New York after the Civil War and founded a private banking house, Governor Lehman has spent most of his adult life in finance, as a partner in Lehman Bros. Politically he is not a misfit but an anomaly. Following two- such bright political lights as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt at Albany he is wholly out of place, yet thoroughly successful. He has the whole hearted support not only of Messrs. Smith and Roosevelt but of a vast section of the New York Press. He is not the public idol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Concerns & Commencements | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...omitted) Cotton $602,000 $611,000 Wheat 432,000 359,000 Barley 91,000 63,000 Tame Hay 724,000 536,000 Tobacco 240,000 179,000 Potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Crops | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...persons. His vivid portraits of them are fast becoming collectors' items and the cost of Bentons has been steadily rising since the Navy put him on the right artistic track. Last week, Thomas Benton, who is usually jolly, had a special reason to be cheerful. He sold his oil, Cotton Town (see reproduction), to Marshall Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Scene | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...June 1933 President George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute walked into the White House, slapped down on President Roosevelt's desk a cotton textile agreement which, with modifications, became the first NRA code. When Mr. Sloan tried to resign as chairman of the Code Authority and president of the Textile Institute last summer, the industry would not hear of it. Fortnight ago the Institute re-elected him president. Last week, complaining of the "double load of important activities," he compromised by keeping his job with the Code Authority but resigning his job with the Institute. Goldthwaite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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