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...efficient industry and so is hog raising. Sugar is an inefficient industry. ... I do not believe Louisiana sugar . . . should be put out of business all at once. That would be hard on human rights. . . ." Four years ago the sugar parish of Assumption voted for Landon.) Scholarly, weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew the cane which routed mosaic disease (as Wallace made his reputation in the corn belt by helping develop hybrid corn), bolted to Willkie, ran for Congress on the Republican ticket, and his regular Democratic opponent withdrew in his favor...
...last week Planter Westrick had become something of a public issue. After the management of the Plaza decided that his further residence there might involve it in the preliminaries of World War III, New York's untiring anti-Nazi Columnist Walter Winchell uncovered him at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison & 76th St.) under the name of Dr. Webster...
...Fair's amusement area. This season, though the Aquacade is good as ever, it will be hard pressed by a brand-new jamboree called Gay New Orleans. Gay New Orleans is a picturesque settlement full of old Creole atmosphere: French-Quarter houses with trelliswork balconies, a planter's mansion, the famous Absinthe House, a Sazerac...
...outbreak of the American Revolution he was a planter in Virginia and in December, 1775, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the newly-organized naval service. The highest rank he ever obtained in the U. S. Navy was that of captain...
...bravery of youth two young Socialists, Harry Leland Mitchell and Clay East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required...