Word: agriculturist
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...their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing...
Bubbling Elspeth Huxley, photographer, big-game hunter, agriculturist and mystery writer (latest: The African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo with a goat, for which I paid three shillings. The witch doctor chalked up my face and between my toes. I did as I was told until I was supposed to lick the intestines of a goat. I hired a substitute for a shilling, being assured that this wouldn...
...farmer is one who makes his money in the country and spends it in town, and an agriculturist makes his money in town and spends it in the country...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his occupation as "Farmer" when he voted at Hyde Park last month. I am wondering if the president is a "farmer" or an "agriculturist"? The difference is this as we define it in the deep South...
Last December Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., who eight years ago was an agriculturist but now talks economics with some assurance, hooked his pince-nez on his nose and looked a twelvemonth ahead. Prosperity, he told his economic experts in the Treasury, would be back in 1939. By prosperity he meant something much closer to 1937's $69 billion national income than to 1938's recession income of less than $65 billions. Last week, while Henry Morgenthau was waving out the old fiscal year, the Commerce Department issued its figures on national income for the first five months...