Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Senate reconvened after hearing the President's message it found South Carolina's old Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith still sweating to get the farm bill out of committee, the calendar wide open. Senator Smith's junior colleague, Jimmy Byrnes, tried to stave off the inevitable by arguing that in default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this...
...weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...
...week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
Lisle and cotton fabrics are being substituted for silk. Lisle-net stockings are all the rage, especially since a boycotter revealed that "net is very stylish--even the Harvard and Amherst men approve...
...cotton-textile industry is shown through the case example of one company which has developed an integrated type operation where all the functions necessary to the production of coitus are performed under a unified management...