Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Farm Board last week was passed its final stack of chips to play the wheat and cotton markets. Congress voted it $100,000,000-last of its original $500,000,000 allowance-with the implication that it must make good on its stabilization program or quit...
...passing the Farm Board's ultimate appropriation Senators openly deplored its open market policy as a "sheer gamble with public funds." An effort to end its wheat and cotton speculation was beaten (55-to-26) only because Senators did not want to shoulder the responsibility of "hamstringing" its operations at a time when failure by its own action was widely anticipated. Applause rose from the galleries when small, precise Senator George of Georgia declaimed: "Four years more of Herbert Hoover and we'll be fortunate if we don't have to turn the Treasury into a community...
Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...
...intention of indulging in any crack-brained theories. It is simply a matter of good business." General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth in its industry,* is the personal creation of President O'Neil. Born in Akron of substantial Irish-Catholic parentage, he went to Holy Cross, played football, studied cotton weaving in a Worcester. Mass., mill. After managing his father's Akron department store for a year, he journeyed to Kansas City where he formed a profitable auto accessory company. In 1915 he returned to Akron, organized General Co. on $200,000, and soon paid out in dividends three...
...deported, arrived penniless in New York in the wreck of a cotton suit and a battered straw hat. He got a job as staff illustrator on the New York World, almost immediately received his most valued piece of art criticism in an office message from Managing Editor Arthur Brisbane: TELL LUKS TO CUT OUT THE SMEARY GENIUS...