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Wrigley gum jobbers in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North & South Carolina, instead of remitting their receipts to Chicago headquarters will deposit them in designated banks in New Orleans, Savannah, Memphis, Mobile, Charleston, S. C. With these deposits the banks will buy cotton under 12? per Ib. for December delivery. Wrigley gum sales in this southern area run about $12,000,000 per year, all of which Mr. Wrigley is ready to invest in cotton and leave in the South. If the South buys enough Wrigley gum, the company will be able to purchase...
...Manhattan last week, Benjamin F. Hubert, colored president of the State Industrial College for Negroes (Savannah, Ga.), pleaded with unemployed Harlem Negroes to come back home. He pictured the South as a Land of Canaan. He assured Harlem that racial disagreement was a thing of the past in the South, told of eating with white folk in Atlanta hotels, speaking before the Legislature. Mourned...
Miriam Hopkins came from Savannah, Ga. but only rarely does her cracker accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...
...Robert Sengstacke Abbott is 60 years old, has three automobiles (Rolls-Royce, Cunningham, Fierce-Arrow) ; has traveled extensively in Europe and South America. A Republican, he does not dabble in politics, refused to run against Chicago's Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest. He was educated at Beach Institute (Savannah), Claflin University (S. C.) and Hampton Institute, of whose alumni association he is president. He received his Baccalaureate in Law from Kent College of Law, his honorary doctorates from Wilberforce University and Morris Brown University. Twenty-five years ago, with a 25? capital, Lawyer Abbott bought some tablet paper, borrowed...
Last week Col. Mann emerged from a Savannah, Ga. meeting of disgruntled Republicans with a direct challenge to the Hoover administration. He referred to the President's patronage committee as "designing political hijackers" and "an interloping element of carpetbaggers." He proclaimed the purpose of his own "noble band": to manage the affairs of the G. O. P., South, without interference; to see that the 1932 Republican National Convention shall have "a solid delegation [from the South] uncontested and uninstructed...