Word: ruralization
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...Manhattan studio last week Doris Lee was busy making preliminary sketches for two 7½-by-13-ft. panels, depicting the Rural Free Delivery, which .she has been commissioned to do for the Post Office Department building in Washington...
...stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept a strangle hold on the Senate, thwarted every Democratic Governor, permitted him to name only his own secretary and the State inspector of barber shops...
...merely a sketch and some detail is nice, it does not hold together, the centre is a confusing mass, it has no mural quality and is devoid of any feeling. I would suggest Mr. Mechau make less trips to the garbage can. As to Kenneth Adams' Rural Free Delivery 'twould do for the Ladies' Home Journal; John Steuart Curry's panels might both be called "comedy" - so silly and trite they are; the Winold Reiss murals would pass as fair advertisement and Gerald Foster's Molly Pitcher as a thriller illustration. However Daniel Boza...
Intended as a prescription to cure the ills of Capitalism is "Social Credit," the invention of an engineer by the name of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas who spends much time tending the delightful garden of his rural English home and knocking together small boats. Last week Major Douglas had had enough of the farce which has been going on in the Canadian province of Alberta in the name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage...
...Cunningham, who got his start as ''E. B." Butler's personal stenographer, Butler Brothers has changed its skin. Catering chiefly to small-town merchants, the company began to suffer in the 1920's. Automobiles and good roads, carrying shoppers to larger cities, cut into the rural merchant's trade. Better transportation also carried salesmen to the merchants that survived, undercutting Butler's mail-order business still further. Meantime chain stores were mushrooming...