Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then wheeled squarely into Schedule Five-the sugar sector, which was passed over earlier because of its especially controversial nature. The four-cornered sugar lineup: domestic beet producers, led by Utah's Senator Smoot, for a 2.75? per Ib. import rate (Cuban: 2.20?); domestic cane producers, led by Louisiana's Senators Ransdell and Broussard, for the House rate of 3? per Ib. (Cuban: 2.40?); unorganized consumers, led by Mississippi's Senator Harrison, for the existing rate of 2.20? per Ib. (Cuban: 1.76?); scattered farm Senators, led by Idaho's Senator Borah, for an as-yet-indefinite...
Combat began when Democrat Ransdell leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...
...were one less than for 1928, six less than for 1927, nine less than for 1926. Score by States: Florida, 4; Texas, 3; Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, 1 each. For the last 40-year lynching period, Georgia leads with 434 Negroes killed by mobs. Mississippi is next with 409, Louisiana third with...
...session last fall, the Senate struck a new and screechy knot-independence of the Philippines. Great has been the growth among U. S. beet and cane growers of the notion that the free importation of Filipino sugar menaced their industry. Senator King of Utah (beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided. U. S. husbandmen producing vegetable oils warmed...
...served as assistant dean in charge of records and as instructor in history, and the next year he passed abroad as a Bayard Cutting fellow, mostly in Paris, carrying on research for his Ph. D. thesis, the subject of which concerns the early years of the French in Louisiana. Back at Harvard again in 1928-29, he served as instructor in history. He took his A.M. in February, 1929. He expects to receive his Ph. D. in June...