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High Cotton is a collection of short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, initially published in 2000. In his introduction, Lansdale cites it as the "Best of Lansdale", and has called this work a companion piece to the 2004 collection Bumper Crop. Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback.
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
Jesse Clyde "J. C." Nichols (August 23, 1880 - February 16, 1950) was an American urban planner and developer of commercial and residential real estate in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas City Club Building is a 14-story building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, built from 1918 to 1922. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002. [1] It was built as the clubhouse of the Kansas City Club, a private club. It remained the clubhouse until 2001, when the club merged with a nearby ...
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Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
"High Cotton" is a song written by Scott Anders and Roger Murrah, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in July 1989 as the third single from the album Southern Star. The song was one of four singles on the album to reach number one on the Hot Country Singles chart. [1]
The company grew through meeting high cotton demand during World War I. By 1944 the company had grown to be the largest provider of cotton in the world, [7] and had cotton oil mills and cotton gins in several countries. [8] The company went public in 1945, and continued to expand by financing cotton growers in several states. [9]