Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmers. South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed'') Smith took a long time to make up his mind whether he was proud or ashamed of the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
...seven other cotton Senators- Georgia's George and Russell, North Carolina's Reynolds, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Missouri's Clark, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-marched on Washington to demand that the Government's present 8.3% cotton loans be upped to the 11.75? maximum (75% of parity) possible under the Act. There they were told that the President was too busy, advised to take their grievances to AAA. Cotton Ed snorted: "These farmers are mad. Why shouldn't they be? ... I have served here under five Presidents preceding this one. I never...
Architecture, Banking, 4 each; Advertising, Astronomy, Certified Accountant, Biological Research, Electrical Communications, History, Museum Work, Sociologist, 2 each; Army Officer, Stage Design, Furniture Design, Engineering, Astrophysics, Accountant, Cotton, Paint, Shipping, Broker, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Dentistry, Dramatics, Forestry, Mathematics, Orchestra Conductor, Radio, Oil Geology, Oil Industry, Meteorology, 1 each...
Careers: His first career, as a farmer on the Texas plains, was climaxed when, aged 13, he picked 413 Ib. of cotton in one day. His second began when he gave up teaching philosophy at his alma mater, the University of Texas, to study philosophy at the University of Chicago. In the next eight years he won a full professorship, a reputation among philosophers for the originality, skepticism, intellectual geniality of his editorship of the International Journal of Ethics. His third career, as publicist and politician, blossomed around the University's radio Round Table which he helped found...
...Under the Neutrality Act, the President has wide discretion in embargoing commodities of secondary but basic importance in war (examples: cotton, shoes...