Word: planter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bravery of youth two young Socialists, Harry Leland Mitchell and Clay East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required...
...Lofts is a pretty girl from Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
ISAAC FRANKLIN, SLAVE TRADER AND PLANTER OF THE OLD SOUTH-Wendell Holmes Stephenson-Louisiana State University Press...
...supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland's] own testimony, including his book account, there is no escape from the conclusion that he charged more than 20% per annum on the furnish account." Thereby, ruled the court, Planter Copeland forfeited not only interest but principal, owes Negro Taylor $2,279.91 (equal to the full value of his cotton without deduction for furnish...
...entirely given over to mountain climbing, Snow on the Equator has chapters on Mr. Tilman's experiences as a coffee planter and on his 3,000-mile bicycle trip from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...