Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy a boycott movement was started against U. S. cotton. Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., publicly complained that his country would be hardest hit by the new tariff, cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
Harvard Club of Louisiana. President: William P. Burke Jr., LL.B. '23, New Orleans Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans. Vice-President: Richard B. Montgomery Jr., LL.B. '25. 1304 Canal Bank Bldg., New Orleans. Vice-President: E. Kirby Newburger, '21, 405 Cotton Exchange Bldg., New Orleans. Secretary: Randolph I. Newman '23, care of L. F. Rothschild & Co., Union Indemnity Bldg., New Orleans. Treasurer: Randolph I. Newman...
...Chancery Court at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The charges: desertion and cruelty. The complainant: "Miss Southern Democracy." Excerpts from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company...
Most significant was the suppression of news from Sholapur, no remote outpost among wild tribes, but a prosperous cotton milling city of 120,000, only 220 miles from the teeming seaport of Bombay. Not until 1,000 soldiers of the Royal Ulster Rifles had in effect recaptured Sholapur for the Crown, last week, was it made known that for several days the city had flown the flag of Indian Nationalism (white, green and red tricolor), had been under swaraj or "self rule" St. Gandhi's famed ideal...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, onetime wife of the late Edward R. Thomas, New York Morning Telegraph publisher: Colonel Lytton Gray Ament; at Reno, Nev. Introduced to each other at Washington in 1926 by Queen Marie of Rumania, they were married secretly, went to Rumania as guests of the Queen, honeymooned royally, romantically...