Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First there was the formal visit to the White House where Sir Esme read his letters of recall to President Hoover in the Blue Room, solemnly shook hands. Then he was escorted to the Union Station by the entire staff of the British Embassy and Acting Secretary of State Cotton. In New York he addressed the Pilgrims of the U. S., and to the British Chamber of Commerce he said: "The great art of diplomacy is patience, patience and again patience. . . . After 36 years of diplomatic service I am a tired man-terribly tired of the sound...
...Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton heard similar criticisms. His reply, like that of André Tardieu when harassed in the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Dec. 30), was: "This business of shooting at the piano player is an indoor sport I deplore...
...Adopted resolutions appropriating $587,500 to combat pink bollworms in Arizona, authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to spend $2,500,000 to compensate quarantined cotton growers...
Amoskeag, located in Manchester, N. H., is the world's largest maker of cotton cloth, operating 20,000 looms. When the present period of irregularity descended on the textile industry, Amoskeag reflected it with declined earnings climaxing in a deficit and no dividend in 1928. During this time Textiler Dumaine sifted and shifted the Amoskeag personnel, insisted upon basing production on unfilled orders. Last week, while most textile companies gloomily faced an even sharper depression, Amoskeag startled everyone by declaring a dividend of $1 per share and a 5% of salary bonus to its 10,000 employes...
...Significance. Popular with many plain people in his lifetime, Lincoln was almost universally hooted at by U. S. aristocracy and by Europe. (Notable exception: The Manchester trade-unionists, who applauded him even while the Southern blockade was ruining their cotton industry.) At his death the tide changed; now he is generally regarded, in the U. S. and abroad, as our greatest President, bar none. Says Biographer Ludwig: "In the many years I have been studying and writing about characters I have never found a more lovable man than Abraham Lincoln, whom God created as a solitary diamond, hors concours [unique...