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...Garrard, of Greenwood, Miss., general manager of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...
...refused to stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...
...charge that northern Republicans, under Pew, and southern Democrats under me, adopted the Eastland-McKellar-McClellan voting bill is, on the record itself completely inaccurate. ... Of the 42 votes cast in favor of this legislation, 17 were cast by southern Democrats and six by northern Republicans, making a total of 23 or less than one-third of those Senators voting. The balance of 19 votes came from four northern Democrats, three western Democrats, and twelve western Republicans...
...Invade States' Rights? Southern Congressmen bitterly and openly opposed what looked like a flank attack on the poll tax. Mississippi's James Eastland spoke for a large group: "The sole issue ... is whether we are to turn the election machinery of the country over to an aggregation of power-crazy bureaucrats in Washington...
Young Lawyer. Mississippi's Democrats were told by the Jackson Daily News that Franklin Roosevelt wanted grey-haired Senator Wall Doxey returned to Washington, that his opponent, hustling James Oliver Eastland, a wealthy lawyer-planter, was too critical of the Senate. The voters, themselves highly critical of the Senate, promptly sent 37-year-old Eastland there again-he had previously occupied Doxey's seat (for 88 days) as Governor-appointed successor to the late Pat Harrison...