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...Senate, Nebraska's Hugh Butler, concerned about the wool growers of his state, wanted Congress to have the final say before any bargains are made. During its whole history when Senate ratification was necessary (before the 1934 Act) the U.S. completed only three reciprocity agreements...
Spit V Image. But Hummon and Harris were undismayed. They sent a reassuring message to the Atlanta "interests" who had backed Old Gene and to the country "wool hat" boys, who had elected him. The message: Hummon was just like his pappy. He chewed corn pone, had Old Gene's cowlick, and stood foursquare for white supremacy and the white primary...
Then came stage dressing. Hundreds of Old Gene's red-gallused wool hat boys invaded Atlanta to "see Hummon git it." After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
Even more to blame, he implied, were "the dyed-in-the-wool Communists." The General bluntly refuted the theory, often advanced by hopeful U.S. leftists, that China's Communists are simply agrarian reformists. Said he: "The Communists frankly state that they are Marxists and intend to work toward establishing a communistic form of government in China, though first advancing through the medium of a democratic form of government of the American or British type...
...extreme both at work and at play. At Aspen he would like to create a symbol of balance. To do so he plans to promote industries in Aspen that will make woodwork out of native aspen, jewelry out of native silver, clothes out of mountain sheep's wool, cheese from the milk of local cattle. It will be no accident, however, if Paepcke, whose Container Corp. does some $75,000,000 worth of business a year, also turns Aspen into a tidy profit...