Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...
...citizens of loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in one grand, rip-snorting jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard of Plymouth Rock. Memphis, the town that Andrew Jackson could...
Best known Memphis Businessman is William Neely ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, All-America Yale footballer (1923), last man tapped for Skull & Bones in his year, vice president of Memphis Cotton Compress & Storage Co. and president of the Carnival Association. Then there is Abe Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town...
...ancillary celebration to National Cotton Week, observed in 23 states by 30,000 merchants who hoped to sell $160,000,000 worth of cotton goods...