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...hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and Government men thronged to a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville. For many a month they had heard and talked a great deal about the cotton-picking machine invented by John Daniel Rust and his brother Mack...
Proud and sweating at the machine's controls was Mack Rust, who handled most of the technical problems in developing the picker. Brother John, who first conceived the principle, had gone to Russia. The USSR had bought two of the ten machines which the brothers have so far manufactured, and John Rust went along with the shipment to show Communist agriculturists how to run them...
Renomination, It took a whole day and most of one night to renominate Franklin Roosevelt. As in 1932 in Chicago, New York's lean, dry Judge John E. Mack, Roosevelt neighbor and onetime State Supreme Court Justice, plowed dutifully through a long, flowery speech ending up with: "I give you as your candidate for President, no longer a citizen merely of one state, but a son of all the 48 states, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" At that traditional signal all hell broke loose on the convention floor. Delegates danced and pranced, whooped and hollered, marched and capered in a mighty...
...morning came a loud buzz on the doorbell of the White House Offices. Secret Service men rushed out-for not in months had that bell been rung-glared at a man who meekly said, ''I am Judge Mack of Poughkeepsie. I have an appointment to lunch with the President." So he had, for he was to suggest to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this week, as he did in 1932, that it ought to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for President...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...