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...Craig, president of the State Bank and Trust Co. at Tallulah, La., came last week a farmer. Last year this farmer had raised 500 bales of cotton. This year he hoped that he might make ten bales. That same morning another farmer had talked to Mr. Craig, had said that not a single bale of cotton would grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people...
...victims' troubles. It appears the universal opinion, however, that these organizations have totally failed to function. Banks are already overloaded with farm "paper" that has become worthless; even the most liberal system of lending money considers some security essential and the farmers have no security to offer. Mr. Craig (quoted above) said that the farm credit corporations were "absolutely worthless." Mr. J. M. Barham, bank president at Avoyelles, La., said: "The banks would like to help but they cannot for they are already drained to the limit. They are all loaded down with farm paper. ... It is a fearful...
...first Mrs. Sinclair (1900-1911, divorced) was Meta H. Fuller; the second (1913-), Mary Craig...
Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...
...feature battle. No change has been made in the Crimson since Captain Platt returned to the number 5 seat three weeks ago. The Cornell boat, with the weights, is seated as follows: stroke, Frances, 179; 7, Callahan, 177; 6, Allen, 186; 5, Harwood, 177; 4, Hopper, 178; 3, Craig, 169; 2, Drew, 177; bow, Jarvis, 174; coxswain, Walker...