Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud rap-rap-rapping on his bedroom door late one night last month awoke Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
...cotton night shirt, between cotton sheets, Governor Long signed a cotton bill designed to outlaw the nation's greatest cash crop next year. After cameramen had recorded the scene, Governor Long announced to the Press: "If the other cotton-growing States will follow Louisiana's lead, I will personally vouch for 20^ cotton. It's all right to call on Hercules but we must put our shoulders to the wheel ourselves...
...dawn that day an airplane streaked away to Austin, Tex. where a copy of what came to be known as Louisiana's "Drop-a-Crop" act was handed to Governor Ross Shaw Sterling with Governor Long's suggestion that Texas also prohibit 1932 cotton planting. Thus to a monster (250 Ib.) Governor of a monster (265,896 sq. mi.) State was passed a monster (15,685,000 bales) cotton problem...
Recent developments in the South made these Chicago tycoons interest in cotton shrewder than it had seemed. Fortnight ago Louisiana passed a law. sponsored by Governor Huey Pierce Long, outlawing cotton planting for 1932. This statute designed to up this year's crop price, would take effect only when States producing 75% of the total U. S. cotton crop enacted similar laws. Governors throughout the South turned to see what would be done in Texas which produces approximately 30% of all U. S. cotton and without which no cotton plan could succeed...
Last week Governor Sterling called a special session of the Texas Legislature to consider a no-planting law. Governor Russell of Georgia said he would do the same. In South Carolina, Governor Blackwood promised a special cotton session. These three States, with Louisiana, produced about 7,500,000 bales out of last year's 14,000,000 bale crop. If all four voted no-planting-in-1932, the plan would still be some 3,000,000 bales short of the required 75% of total production. Alabama and Mississippi, however, could put it over...