Word: pecan
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...Uvalde, Tex. pecan farm last week, "Cactus Jack" Garner, Roosevelt's old Vice President, dropped a bit of news calculated to discourage publishers, biographers, and ghostwriters. Not only had he decided not to write his memoirs, he had dumped the letters and records of his 38 years in Washington into a big bonfire and burned them...
...electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
That Night with You (Universal) would be a satisfactory scoop of vanilla if it didn't try to be hot-fudge-marshmallow-pecan. The film was originally titled Once Upon a Dream, but Universal's sales department made a firm pronouncement: "Any title with fantasy or the supernatural suggested is poison at the box office." But Once Upon a Dream is still the right name for the picture...
...letter to his old Senate crony John Nance Garner, at his Uvalde, Tex. farm. He invited "Cactus Jack" to drop in any time. Washington promptly hummed that Jack Garner might get a Cabinet job. But no such offer was made. Old Cactus Jack, 76, is so busy watering his pecan trees, feeding chickens, "striking a blow for liberty" (with bourbon and a little "branch water" from the tap), and resting, that not even an offer of the Secretary of Stateship could lure him back to Washington...
...Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...