Word: ruralization
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...Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff approved (4-to-2) an amendment to the criminal code providing criminal prosecution for unfair business practices such as the granting of discriminatory discounts, rebates, allowances. They also unanimously approved the Farmers' Creditors' Arrangement Act, providing machinery for negotiating reductions in rural debts and interest rates...
...Since rural budgets are inelastic, most of the women avoided hotels, packed their belongings into inexpensive boarding houses and private homes, pitched tents in tourist camps outside the city. "Towns people never have done anything like it," boasted Mrs. Alfred Watt of Canada, the Country Women's plump president. The women listened to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull once, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace twice. They deployed over the White House lawn, serenaded the President with Home on the Range, drank Mrs. Roosevelt's lemonade, showed such eagerness to shake the hand of a woman...
...wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener...
...South's supply of its most popular game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers who sell them in violation of State and Federal laws to breeding firms and shooting preserves as "field-bred" or "im-ported Mexican" birds. A furtive and elusive business, this rural racket has been fought for years with little success by the Department of Justice...
...regional story as her first big job. After winning an M.A. at Columbia in 1928, Mrs. Van Etten returned to Mt. Vernon to teach at Cornell College, where she had been graduated three years before, learned about her native State by helping a county nurse make a survey of rural bathing habits. She began I Am the Fox after arguing with her husband about whether foxes object to being hunted, finished it because of the "relentless goading and browbeating" of Cornell's Professor Clyde Tull, who knew Mrs. Van Etten could write because he had taught...