Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican language Senator Vandenberg's figures meant that reciprocal tariff agreements were putting the U. S. on the road to bankruptcy. In Democratic language the same figures meant just the opposite: not only was the U. S. selling more of its products (biggest single U. S. export: cotton), but U. S. investors were finally tending to get something of value (more imports) as return on the $12,000,000,000 of U. S. money they invested abroad mostly in Republican times...
Such a dilemma confronted Rev. J. Fred Johnson of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. last fortnight when a deacon informed him that Mary Katherine Prince and Frank Otto Cotton Jr. had been married-properly, by a Georgia clergyman-for two years. They had kept it secret from all but a handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...
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...tribute to the lucidity of cotton textile spokesmen that during the last two years the studious New York Times failed to acknowledge that the Japanese import menace, about which William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst seemed perennially overexcited, might actually materialize. One of the first alarms sufficiently well expressed to convince laymen was written for the Times last August by President Claudius Temple Murchison of the Cotton-Textile Institute. Last week President Murchison arrived in New York from San Francisco, marched modestly into the Hotel McAlpin to tell a gathering of U. S. textile men how an excellent formulation of their...