Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parallel was obvious. The President had asked Congress for crop control legislation and had failed to get it. Now, with a bumper crop threatening to depress cotton prices, Southern Congressmen wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance...
...fire. For some 30 years to bring an anti-lynching bill to the floor of the Senate has been the signal for a filibuster by Southern Senators. In an instant Senator Barkley was on his feet protesting that Senator King was to have been next recognized. The Vice President's white eyebrows bristled. It was not his fault that the Leader and his man had been caught napping. He snapped...
Meantime, two of the nearly-extinct Southern New Dealers, Senators Black* of Alabama and Bilbo of Mississippi, who have to do a lot of interpreting of their liberalism when they get back home, sought to soothe their farmer constituents by doing something now. They trotted around petitioning for a special Congressional session in October for the express purpose of enacting a farm bill. Calling a special session is strictly the prerogative of the President but it was understood that Mr. Roosevelt did not object to the petition. He cared not whether his comprehensive farm legislation (ever-normal granary...
...Negro lawyers. Of the largest group, Washington, D. C.'s 225, over half are "sun-downers"' who work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from...
...calls "stewardess-nurses." Union Pacific now has stewardess-nurses on all of its streamliners and on the Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Like airline hostesses, these girls must be registered nurses. The Baltimore & Ohio has five hostesses (nurses) on Manhattan to Chicago runs. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have hostess-nurses on their joint run from Chicago to the California coast...