Word: ruralization
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...Heather Angel is, if different from Miss Margalo Gilmore, quite as delightful; she has caught the tragedy of time in another way, but she has caught it just as surely. The settings for Berkeley Square, venturing out of doors where the stage could not go, are excellent. Stage coaches, rural England, eighteenth century London chimes and cobblestones; all are true and unexceptionable. The Uptown has provided Charlie Ruggles, in a comedy of marriage and philandery, as a light and agreeable breather...
Meanwhile Secretary and Mrs. Hull were all but lost in Buenos Aires so far as correspondents were concerned, when Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions...
When General Johnson went to the Midwest last month to stump for the NRA, he was invading a land embittered by falling agricultural prices, pocked by rural unrest. Last week the NRAdministrator made his first swing South. Ten cent cotton had disposed its people favorably toward the President's recovery program. At Atlanta, where he was cheered by 3,500 Georgians, the General was in top forensic form...
...election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...
Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...