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...earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground-Jeremiah, 25:33.) As to when the universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME...
...stories which the Caldwells, father and son, have told of share croppers in Georgia may, as you point out in your issue of March 25, be true of a biologically degraded 1%. The misery of share croppers in Georgia or in Arkansas is not confined to this degenerate minority. In Arkansas 410 spokesmen for families out of a total attendance at four meetings of 1,719 persons told me that they had neither crops to make nor jobs to work at. Food allowances on which from 10? to 20? on the dollar extra is charged are held to about...
...state of Maine, 95 out of every 100 farmers own their own land. But the civil war failed to change basically the Southern plantation system. In Georgia and Mississippi, approximately 70 out of every 100 farmers work somebody else's land as tenants or share croppers. The share cropper trades his services and those of his family for a shack and half the crop he makes, less 10? an acre ditch and road-maintenance fee, 10? on every dollar's worth of supplies bought at the plantation commissary (patronage obligatory) for "management fee," further deductions depending...
...inevitable physical and mental hangover, kept him from trying once more to kill himself. But the next time the mood got him Hallem was too quick for his saviors. Roiter, too. fell on evil days. To an international insurance company on whose board of directors he served came a cropper. Thanks to Roiter, its affairs were wound up before they fell foul of the law, but the directors' reputations for smartness were not enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family...
Praise in lesser degree he has for John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, John Steuart Curry, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, William Cropper. He plays with the suggestion that Communism may prove the regeneration of art but only if the idea of Communism produces art, not if art is propaganda for the ideas of Communism...