Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the area in question represents less than 1% of the area and population of the U.S. They also forget to mention that the people in Rhode Island have never tried to make a living by growing cotton and then selling it for 6¢ per Ib. As for the New Deal spending money, it would probably be interesting for them to know that there are more unemployed people in New York City than there are people in the whole State of Rhode Island and these people cannot be kept hungry. President Roosevelt was given a vote of confidence...
...cotton loan on the 1935 crop will be approved and announced within 36 hours." Echoed Georgia's other Senator, Richard B. Russell Jr.: "I am expecting the announcement hourly. My only regret is that the loan will not be more than 12? -say 14? or 15? a Ib." Undeterred by the fact that his two Georgia colleagues had been proved poor prophets, Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead last week stoutly asserted: "I think a 12? loan is absolutely sure. I have been in constant communication with the President and I have had no intimation of a change...
Cotton Senators fumed and spluttered at this open flouting of their predictions. "Disastrous to the entire cotton-growing South!" cried Senator George. "Cotton shippers won a great victory. . . . The plan will be very confusing!" snapped Senator Bankhead. When the market price of cotton slumped nearly 1? a Ib. on the news, their outcry rose to a roar. "I am embarrassed and confused!" exclaimed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton...
Tennis, a game in which size and muscle would appear to be indispensable, always includes one or more practicing peewees. Like Bill Johnston and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, Mrs. Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited...
Born. To Columnist Walter Winchell and Mrs. (June Magee) Winchell; a son; in Manhattan. Name: Walter Jr. Weight: 7 Ib. 6 oz. The Winchells have a daughter, Walda...