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...land. But the civil war failed to change basically the Southern plantation system. In Georgia and Mississippi, approximately 70 out of every 100 farmers work somebody else's land as tenants or share croppers. The share cropper trades his services and those of his family for a shack and half the crop he makes, less 10? an acre ditch and road-maintenance fee, 10? on every dollar's worth of supplies bought at the plantation commissary (patronage obligatory) for "management fee," further deductions depending on the character of the landlord. It was estimated that the average cash income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 'Bootleg Slavery | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...although Semon Dye has seduced most of the women, consumed most of the corn, and taken most of the money in the immediate neighborhood of Clay Horey's shack, the people of Rocky Comfort are sorry to have the wandering Man of God hit the trail for the next town. He may have brought ruination with him, but he was at least a diversion. Most readers will not believe in any of the characters of Journeyman, but they may be impressed by Mr. Caldwell's violent energy, his satirical thrusts at orgiastic religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Georgia Preacher | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...gave no answers, put many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Question Raiser | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...night about a year ago a hideous row broke out in the baroness' shack. Scullion Lorenz took shelter with the neighboring Wittmers for several months. After a while he returned to the baroness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Death in Galapagos | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...March there was another row at the baroness'. Scrambling down a rocky path to investigate, the Wittmers found wild-eyed Rudolph Lorenz standing by a deserted disordered shack. There had been a fight, said he, and the baroness and Philippson had gone off "on an American yacht" to start another colony in the South Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Death in Galapagos | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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