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Governor of Texas. All of these men and agencies in Washington could not do so much for the cotton planter as one big man in Texas. But Governor Ross Shaw Sterling was not inclined to use the full power of his position. It appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Reporters found one gloomy insurrectionist sucking away at a planter's punch in a cafe in Obispo Street. "At least," said he, brightening, "we spoiled Machado's fishing season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peace on the Prado | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...tried to be in love with Purfleet, an intellectual light-weight who was cautiously attracted by her massive virginity, but as soon as marriage was in the wind Purfleet showed a clean pair of heels. Georgie's big chance came when Geoffrey, a stupid but eligible young planter, spent his leave with her family. Georgie was the first white girl Geoffrey had seen in some time, and that nearly turned the trick, but unfortunately for her he began to look around, found Margy more to his liking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Ulysses-- | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...unsound, unwise and impractical." Declared Governor Gardner of North Carolina: "I'm opposed to making the Southern cotton farmer the goat. In this State we didn't plant any third row of cotton this year." Governor Blackwood of South Carolina found the plan "utterly impractical" as each planter would want to let the others do the plowing under. Mused Governor Long of Louisiana noncommittally: "Sounds pretty good-but damned if I know." Governor Murray of Oklahoma turned the plan down with the suggestion that a four-inch ruffle added to the dress of every Chinese woman would solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Cotton Crisis | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Absurd . . . just damn nonsense . . . preposterous ... a bluff . . . midsummer madness . . . damn foolishness . . . just so much bunk," were typical of the epithets which Southern newspapers, cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Cotton Crisis | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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