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Peter Ashley, scion of one of Charleston's first families, had no wish to be a planter. His skeptically intelligent uncle adopted him, developed his doubts, protected his sensitiveness, sent him to Oxford to finish his education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform...
...Dust (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a rowdy exposition of bed manners on a rubber plantation back of Saigon, French Indo-China. In the persons of Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, impersonating a harlot and a lusty planter, two predatory carnivores are brought together, happily rend each other...
...burning of the store destroys the accounts against the poor, the tenants demand of Barthelmess his duplicate set. Strong with social conscience, Barthelmess calls a meeting of tenants and landlords, draws up an unspecified plan for cooperation, blackmails the bully landlord into signing, while the majority of good planter-landlords sign willingly. Retrieving the tenant girl's clean love, Barthelmess goes to lead the new South into economic wisdom...
...Jeronimo journeyed on into the interior "it seemed as though everything here was ambiguous, merely a substitute for something else, but only in the sense in which things are substitutes for their souls, events for their meaning. . . ." Berna, fey-wise daughter of a drunken planter, half fell in love with him, but he was looking for something else. At Riquem's plantation Jeronimo spent a tense evening: his host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited...
Sirs: The most valid and puissant argument that I have knowledge of, for the retention of the 18th amendment in our constitution was that advanced by the Hon. Jack Bradford, prominent lawyer and planter of Itta Bena, Miss, (a so-called arid State) in a speech yesterday delivered on the Jones Fedric Plantation at the annual squirrel stew. Guests were the important cotton planters of this Mississippi Delta section. Applause was gusty. For the information of your readers, I quote the speech [in part]: ". . . Taxation is destroying our nation. We have been taxed in every way that the ingenuity...