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...inhabitants. In Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York live some 2,500,000 Negroes, of whom over 1,000,000 are prospective voters this year. Moreover, in these same nine States the Roosevelt-Landon battle will be waged especially hard, with the result in each perhaps turning in favor of the party which can bag the largest Black vote...
...Crump dynasty is supposed to be financed by various forms of "protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result of this system is that in 30 years of bossdom Edward Crump has had a record of 60 electoral victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee...
...seven seasons through 1935 the firm sold more than $1,000,000,000 worth of cotton, yet its total profit was only $13,000,000. Testifying before a Senate committee Will Clayton declared: "We made those profits, by the way, at least half of them, as the result of the Government cotton policy." Mr. Clayton was referring to Herbert Hoover's Farm Board, not to the New Deal's curtailment of production, which he dislikes even more than governmental plunging in the cotton market...
Most exuberant exhibitor was one M.M. Pochapin, who displayed a line of kazoos running from ordinary noisemakers at 5? to fancy models at 50?. According to Kazooman Pochapin, his business this year has been booming as the result of political conventions, swing music and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. No pessimist, Mr. Pochapin predicts he will sell $250,000 worth of kazoos in 1936, which would be $236,000 more than he sold last year...
...trust called Interstate Equities, originally a $25,000,000 concern sponsored by Bancamerica-Blair Corp. That meant it was managed by such Wall Street bigwigs as Edward Richmond Tinker, Hunter Sylvester Marston and Elisha Walker. Bancamerica-Blair used to cut its affiliated trust into pools and syndicates with the result that Interstate dropped no less than $5,000,000. Messrs. Tinker, Marston & Walker also managed to lose another $13,000,000 in Interstate's ordinary stock and bond investments...