Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is the long struggle of the Southern sharecropper for the right to buy food, gin & sell his part of the cotton crop wherever he wants, instead of where the landlord wants. Still older is the story of the sub-subsistence living level of some 2,000,000 Southern tenant farmers. But a newer and somewhat brighter tale is that of the incipient cropper colony movement, both public and private...
...hearings on Mrs. Nieman's will indicated that the ambitious relatives were hanging their case on Mrs. Mary Morris, a nurse employed as Mrs. Nieman's companion for the past four years. Mrs. Morris attributed to her late charge melancholia, delusions of poverty, an undue fondness for gin...
...centre of celebration last week was Memphis' Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis whites were celebrating the annual Cotton Carnival, Beale Street was having its own fiesta, crowning its own king and queen, parading its own elaborate floats. The king was Undertaker Eddie Hayes. Queen was Ethyl Venson, pretty young wife of a Negro dentist. Highest honors throughout the fiesta were paid to a portly old Negro who had motored from his home in Manhattan for the occasion. A great hero...
Even Chamber President Harper Sibley, re-elected last week for another one-year term, thought that U. S. thinking has been "tainted with sophistries of foreign ori-gin." But the long-nosed, amiable Rochester, N. Y. capitalist, taking a little longer view than his fellows, continued: "If the American people have given ear to false prophecies, they are not to be herded back to the right path by denunciation and abuse. ... It is a task for both business management and political management...
...crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with him. The cotton farmer who tried to defy the old AAA's crop restrictions was always trapped by the old Bankhead Act which stopped him at the gin with a penalty tax on his nonquota cotton. The Soil Conservation Act lacked a Bankhead Law to enforce obedience. Therefore it was definitely news last week when the Senate Agricultural Committee took steps to get immediate consideration of a supplementary farm bill nearly identical with one already passed...