Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against: Democratic Tariff bills (1932, 1934), Wartime Income Tax rates (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1932), 30-Hour Week (1933), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), NIRA (1933), AAA (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), Stock Exchange Control (1934), Silver Amendment (1954), Confirming Dr. Tugwell...
Life in Greenwood, Fla. was a little less dull one day last week when all the white folks in the neighborhood were invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton...
Upon invitation of a "lynching committee" of six, 5,000 men, women and children choked the front yard of the Cannidy place, overflowed into the cotton field where bonfires were lighted. The Cannidys had prepared some sharp sticks and whetted their knives in anticipation of the revenge they would take on Negro Neal. A man said to be a Florida legislator got up and amused the crowd with a funny speech as it waited for the spectacle. It was nearly midnight when one of the "lynching committee" appeared to announce that he feared violence with so many people around; there...
Little swatches of cloth, in gay colors and designs, reached the U. S. last week from Italy, accompanied by such explanations as: " 'Wooden overcoats' for live Fascists the rage this season.'' Some of the samples resembled wool or flannel, others mercerized cotton. All were specimens of Sniafiocco, a textile made from wood pulp and lately developed by engineers of Italy's big Snia Viscosa, makers of artificial silk...
...Sept. 15 the farm price for cotton was 13.1?, but the "parity" price, based on the equation between what the farmer sells and what he buys from industry, was 15.6?. Farm price for wheat was 92.2?, parity price 111.4?. Theoretically, the processing tax for cotton should have been 2.5?, for wheat 19.2?. Actually they were respectively 4.2? and 30?. In other words, consumers were more than bridging the gap between farm and parity prices. If farm prices continued to rise, or industrial prices began to fall, or both, parity would be reached and processing taxes would by law become inoperative...