Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing on home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
...skeet shooting, swimming in the nude and other innocent occupations. The air was one of slightly stilted jollification for some of the divisions in the party were already too deep to be healed by such simple means, but the President guffawed at the Negro stories of bumbling Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, heartily first-named hundreds of Congressmen. Representative Martin Dies of Texas inducted the President into the Demagogues Club, asking him to promise: to favor all appropriation bills and oppose all taxation bills; not to harm his chances for a third term; never to be consistent even...
...Jack Doyle, a September bout between Braddock, with whom Promoter Jacobs also has an exclusive contract, and Max Baer. While the confusion about his ring activities continued. Champion Louis went home to visit his mother in Detroit where he got a report that his father, a onetime Alabama cotton picker, missing for the last 22 years and long given up for dead, had been discovered in the Alabama State Asylum, where he had been since 1915. one year after Joe Louis' birth. Said Champion Louis: "Yes. he may be my father. I'm checking...
Another new face was that of Pilot Henry T. ("Dick") Merrill, whose second two-way transatlantic flight earned him a Doctor of Aeronautical Science at Pennsylvania Military College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic...
...popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile men, freezing Japan's export quotas at 255,000,000 yd. for 1937-38. These visits stirred the shrewd and courteous Japanese to reciprocity. Last month Mr. Forbes became chairman of a national reception committee for the first Japanese Economic Mission to the U. S. since...