Word: durant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 80, walrus-mustached, unreconstructed Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 35 years (longest consecutive Senatorial term in U.S. history); of coronary thrombosis; in Lynchburg, S.C. Perched on cotton bales in a mule-drawn wagon, Cotton Ed galumphed through South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt...
...post-war rebuilding plans are evidenced by the barricades and hammering on the Johnston Gate, judging from the statement of Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, but "just a repair...
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...Falsey, sb 4 1 1 1 Williams, cf 4 0 1 0 Coulson, 1b 4 0 0 0 Chapple, 2b 5 1 2 1 Wallace, p 5 1 2 2 Cappacio, rf 4 0 1 0 Conlon, 1f 4 0 0 0 Dunn, 3b 5 1 0 1 Durant...
...Ellison DuRant Smith (his opponents pronounce his middle name in two words) is no Southern aristocrat. He was born during the Civil War, near Lynchburg, S.C., and raised in the Reconstruction, when carpetbaggers, scalawags and Negroes bankrupted the State Legislature. He never tried to overcome his horror at the thought of a Negro voting. He had two ideas: 1) keep Negroes down, 2) the price of cotton up. On this platform Cotton Ed was kept in office as a U.S. Senator for six terms, long enough to become the dean of the Senate. This week he also became...