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Extreme Drama. First to succeed in dramatizing the cotton situation was loud, extreme Governor Long. He called his Legislature into session, whipped through his bill prohibiting cotton planting next year under a penalty of $500 fine and 60 days imprisonment. The Louisiana law would be effective only when States producing 75% of the cotton crop took similar action. The economic theory behind this statute was that, if the South planted no cotton next year, this year's crop plus the carryover would more than double in value. Fantastic though the "Drop-a-Crop" scheme might be, it had one certain...
...loud rap-rap-rapping on his bedroom door late one night last month awoke Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
...medal from Secretary Adams, a spasm of applause from 4,000 spectators. There was some confusion about the medal, for the name of Molla Bjursted Mallory, eight-time Woman's Champion, and of Mary K. Browne had unaccountably been left off the list. Richard Dudley Sears, in a loud burst of applause, shook hands four times, received his medal with patrician politeness. He made no great show of liking the ceremony but said he was glad he had come, against his doctor's advice, because "they only hold these things every 50 years and I may not be here...
When, on the advice of his Surgeon-General, President Hoover told the country: ''The public health has apparently never been better than it has been over the past six months" (TIME, Aug. 31), some commenting was to be expected. Last week some came from New York, taking loud exception...
...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...