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...Brazilian exchange has weakened sharply, the milreis falling to 17.7 on the dollar last week. Observers have suggested that this was done deliberately by the Brazilian Government as an attempt to stabilize internal coffee prices and lower world prices. As recently as last fortnight Fernando Costa, rich Sao Paulo planter who is currently president of D. N. C. declared that D. N. C.'s crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will...
Narrative of The Garden of Adonis is as involved as the writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since...
...York's O'Day is a tall, blue-eyed Episcopal socialite. Daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, she studied art eight years in Europe, there met the Irishman she subsequently married, the late Daniel O'Day, an official of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop...
...visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...
...Peacher was heard to remark: "He don't scare me none. That jury will turn me loose." After nearly three hours the jury pronounced him guilty, recommending he be spared a prison sentence. Immediately Judge Martineau imposed a fine of $3,500, a two-year prison term. Planter Peacher and Arkansas were speechless...