Word: ibra
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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First to Follow. In other Southern States last week cotton was also a major concern with Governors, politicians and planters. First to follow Texas was South Carolina (estimated crop: 929,000 bales) whose Governor Ibra C. Blackwood called a special legislative session for this week. It was the first extraordinary sitting of this assembly since 1914 when, in a similar crisis of 6¢ cotton, Governor Coleman Livingston Blease called the law-makers together...
...bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such a prohibition, however, would not be effective until States producing at least 75% of the country's cotton had acted. Governor Long and Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood of South Carolina left the conference talking about calling their Legislatures into special session at once to enact the required legislation...