Word: ruralization
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Last week Josephine Johnson presented more portraits in her gallery of overemotional farmers in a book of short stories, written in the cadenced prose of her first novel. Long descriptions of rural sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
...morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
...Department of Justice's fine new building on Constitution Avenue went 21 handpicked, high-ranking law officers from rural, metropolitan and State police services. With the exception of instruction in matters strictly Federal, these 21 adult students were to receive free of charge the same three-months course given novice Special Agents. In addition, there were to be special lectures on ballistics, first aid, criminal procedure, psychiatry, by such national figures as Major Julian S. Hatcher of the Army's Ordnance Department, Assistant Surgeon General Ralph C. Williams of the Public Health Service, onetime U. S. District Attorney George...
South Dakota swept into action. Early last week it shut every one of its relief stations, cutting 19,000 heads of families off relief, ordered the stations to stay shut until farmers had all the harvest help they wanted. Illinois stopped work relief in rural areas. Nebraska prepared to suspend relief allotments to 26 counties, halve them in 15 others. Missouri halted work projects employing 50,000 persons. Michigan cut 46,000 names off its relief rolls. One by one Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi fell into line...
...Elected as president for one year neither Vermont's syrupy Woodruff nor Massachusetts' demagogic Woodward but a Westerner and a Superintendent, Iowa's Agnes Samuelson. A broad-beamed daughter of Swedish immigrants, Agnes Samuelson began her career 29 years ago by teaching in a rural school, while looking after six younger brothers and sisters. Spunky, capable, she wheedled a third term as Iowa's Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction without a whimper from a Democratic State Administration...