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During the campaign Eastland lambasted the Roosevelt Administration from hell to breakfast, and when he got to Washington early in 1943, he was reminded of it by a chuckling F.D.R. Said Roosevelt: "That's all right, son. I got quite a kick out of those anti-New Deal cracks. Now you're elected, though, remember we've got to play together. You can come see me whenever you want to. You take two minutes telling me what you want, and I'll do the talking the rest of the 15 minutes. Then I'll give...
Land of Cotton. It was a natural interest, even more natural for Eastland than for most cotton state Senators. Since his father's death in 1944, Jim Eastland has been owner of the Doddsville plantation -it now comprises 5,020 acres-and cotton is one of his major sources of livelihood. This fact has not only influenced his legislative approach, but has helped to keep his heart firmly in Mississippi. The eleven-room brick house which the Eastlands purchased two years ago as a permanent Washington headquarters for themselves and their four children (three daughters...
...Most of Eastland's time at Doddsville, however, is devoted to business. Though he relies heavily on his general manager, spry, 76-year-old William Godbold, Eastland is keenly aware that casual absentee ownership can never make a success of what is less of a plantation than an agricultural factory. Last year the Eastland plantation had about 1,900 acres in cotton, the remainder in corn, soybeans, oats, barley and pasturage. Under Eastland's close supervision, the land is cultivated according to the most scientific information available. Each spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time...
...this has required a heavy investment in money and in Eastland's time. The plantation's equipment includes 27 tractors, one caterpillar, 25 cotton trailers, 15 four-row plowing units and a vast assortment of plows, combines, trucks, balers, pickers, etc. Eastland's plantation with its equipment is worth more than a million dollars and grosses about half a million a year in sales. Working the 4,500 acres directly under the plantation manager-520 acres are worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material...
...Measure of Fame. So strong is the pull of Doddsville on the Eastlands that Libby Eastland was reluctant to have Jim stand for re-election in 1954. Jim, however, liked being a Senator, and his interests had broadened to include Communism as well as cotton. He had even won a certain measure of fame for arrogant behavior as a member of the Internal Security Subcommittee-though nothing like the national attention he was to get later when his investigation of Communist influence on the U.S. press brought down upon him the wrath of the New York Times (TIME...