Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this produced in their country. Nevertheless last week the very Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country as the PWA. For another thing, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury still controls the price of silver, which is a matter of life...
...surprisingly amiable dawn. The sunny and warm, outdoors a few birds voices, up and bathe and into the Dining Hall just in time for breakfast. Back in the Attic and the papers all read, the Vagabond picks up his Foerster. John Smith, Wm. Bradford, roger Williams, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Franklin. John Dickinson, Thomas Paine...
Small pecan growers pick their own crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers...
...first snag. The Atlanta Constitution had politely editorialized: "There should be earnest and full co-operation by the Christian people of Atlanta in the constructive and inspirational meetings to be held during the next four days." But the Atlanta ministers in charge of arranging these inspirational meetings did not cotton to the Federal Council of Churches' stipulation that at least one Negro be included among the speakers. Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city's Negro ministers made any difference. "Wide public controversy," insisted the local committee, must be avoided. So the Preaching Mission...
...economic log jam", Secretary Hull displayed in Minneapolis last week a naive and childlike conception of the havoc which Roosevelt policies have brought to our foreign trade. The combined effects of AAA crop reduction and the reciprocal agreements have closed foreign markets to many of our vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more from Canada cannot appeal to the vote of any pocket-wise consumer...