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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career: He attended Stewart's School, Charleston, the University of South Carolina (one year), Wofford College, Spartanburg, from which he was graduated, and Vanderbilt College which prepared him for the law (though he took no bar examinations). He served four years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Duke (tobacco-stained Trinity) trounced Richmond, 72-0. . . . Wofford offered no defence to Chattanooga, losing 7 to 38. ... Georgia Tech climbed through Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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