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...creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their...
Died. John Barnes Miller, 62, founder and board chairman of Southern California Edison Co. Ltd.; of blood-poisoning following influenza; in Los Angeles. A onetime planter, law student, steamboat operator, he became an employe of a small Los Angeles lighting company at 27, within five years merged 40 local utilities to form Southern California Edison. Under his direction it grew to have assets of $375,000,000 in 1930, 110,000 stockholders...
...cotton planter and a resident of the South conversant with its conditions I want to assure Lawyer Stock that the old law of "Survival of the fittest" will do more than any act of legislature to reduce cotton production. I also believe that most thinking people regard such legislative action as a reflection upon the intelligence of people engaged in the labor of raising cotton, who must be protected by law to keep from breaking their financial neck, if still intact another year...
Fourteen Chinese had been arrested for the murder of a French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a scowling Japanese adept with his great broad blade...
...Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with U. S. cotton is not quantity but quality. 2) The South must learn to compete in the world market, which the U. S. planter dominates less & less...