Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background. An}' Southern country boy will easily recognize that the pole arising behind the house is for gourd martins. Enlightened Yankees, how ever, will call it a TV antenna, and will assume that the artist intended to imply that the typical Georgian lives in a shack, plants cotton, surrounds himself with barbed wire, votes for Talmadge, and buys a TV set before house paint...
...hard that they could not agree on some of the facts. Farm surpluses, said Stevenson, have skyrocketed under the Republicans-15 times as much cotton, 2¼ times as much oats, eight times as much barley. Kefauver's more expansive figures: 25 times as much cotton, 15 times as much oats, 21 times as much barley. Braced for an explanation, Stevenson said the figures would "have to be reconciled," but Estes blandly said he'd stand...
Early in the summer of 1955 the school board in the little (pop. 1,855) cow-and-cotton town of Hoxie, Ark. made a big decision: the community's 25 Negro students were to be integrated with the 1,000 white youngsters in the school system at the start of the next semester. All went well until the White Citizens' Council of Arkansas and White America, Inc. moved into town and with local segregationists began a pressure and terror campaign against parents and school-board members. But the school board held firm; following the procedure laid down...
...have two big weekends a year," said a Dallas businessman last week. "One is New Year's. The other is the TexasOklahoma game." Dallas hotel rooms had been reserved for months, airlines and railroads hauled capacity crowds, the Cotton Bowl itself had been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills - -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy...
...place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces the farmer, even Republicans are running candidates. Against this gathering avalanche Herman intends to maintain the Bible-shouting, "Anglo-Saxon," segregated status quo he has always enjoyed. He believes firmly that he can halt the pulsing pistons of political progress. He believes because, reared on politics...