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...traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those who love South Carolina and the white man's rule...
John Holmes Overton, Democratic Senator from Louisiana, denounced a contemplated new tax on fur coats, demanded exemption for styles costing under $150. "I'm not talking about the $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 fur garments," he said, "but I'm talking about those cheap little $200 fur coats these poor little working girls have to have as an absolutely necessary item to keep themselves warm as they go to war plants to make munitions...
...class. Almost before it could take its intended place, this department found it necessary to retrench. Of its five original tutors, only three remain. Donald V. McGranahan, instructor in Psychology, and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, have been replaced by John T. Dunlop, Faculty instructor in Economics, and Overton H. Taylor, lecture on Economics At present the field has no tutors from either the Government or Psychology Department...
Headed by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, the roster of speakers included Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, Charles Kiefer of the Department of Agriculture studying on a Littauer Fellowship, and Edward Ames '42, president of the Harvard Liberal Union...
Proponents of a nation-wide compulsory ceiling on laborer's wages as a means of holding down ballooning prices were essentially discredited last night by Hans Staehle, visting lecturer in Economics, and Overton H. Taylor, Lecturer in Economics, who spoke over the Crimson Network last night on the topic: "Should there be a ceiling on wages as well as on prices...