Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...from a friend, spent $400 of it to buy some advertising space in a psychology magazine. Reared in the Baptist Church, Frank Robinson had recanted his Christian beliefs, had acquired certain ideas on religious psychology which he wished to teach. His advertisement brought 2.852 replies, one from a British cotton importer of Alexandria, Egypt named Geoffrey Peel...
Attempts at isolation necessarily involve curtailment of our foreign trade activities, if not complete cessation of them. What will the American cotton farmer say when his markets are destroyed, when he sees prices skyrocketed outside the country while they crumble within? What will laborers say when wages fall and prices rise? Who elect our Congressmen, anyway? The more efficient our control of foreign commerce becomes, the greater the internal pressures which rise up behind those barriers to destroy them. The dream of isolation, upon which rests the arguments of keeping hands off, is sheer moonshine...
...hosiery for women. When a college girl buys a pair of lisle or rayon stockings instead of silk she deprives Japan of exactly 10?, and probably is not aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced that they favor boycotting goods of Japanese manufacture...
...results of the boycott of Japan's manufactured products. Last week S. H. Kress & Co., the McCrory Stores, the Woolworth chain, S. S. Kresge Co., H. L. Green Co. announced they would place no new orders for Japanese goods. U. S. imports of Japanese foodstuffs, housewares, toys, cotton goods and other manufactured products valued in 1936 at some $76,700,000- substitutes for which are procurable in domestic and other foreign markets-may be affected if this movement grows...