Word: ruralization
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...Western campaign trip Governor Roosevelt frequently introduced himself to rural audiences as a Hudson River Valley "farmer." His reference was to the agricultural operations carried on at "Krum Elbow," his mothers 1,000-acre estate at Hyde Park, N. Y. Roiled by such talk, Henry Field, Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, last month blurted out: "At Krum Elbow there is no hog lot but there are a polo ground and tennis court. What appears to be a silo is an elevated water tower for care of the lawn and the sunken garden. What looks like a henhouse is really...
...contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26¢ in the insurance rate on public dock property...
...Small is opposing is Henry Homer (ne Levy), an able Jewish judge from Chicago. Years ago his mother legally changed his name to hers when she divorced his father. On behalf of his snaggle-toothed partisan Small, Big Bill proceeded to give Judge Horner a forensic log-ride. Downstate rural clodhoppers gawped, snickered and nodded approvingly when he shouted: "My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will do if he gets...
...trumpet. He is looking very well in his spectral way and is enjoying the health which only a vigorous summer close to nature can produce. Economic disaster directed the Vagabond's steps toward the farm where he patterned his life upon the teachings of Roussean and the Rural New Yorker...
From its county agents who have talked with smalltown bankers, who have bounced along rural roads to look at farms and talk with farmers, the U. S. Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gets the figures which enable it to make its monthly forecasts. Last week the Board met in Washington and pondered pages of cotton statis tics. The windows were carefully shaded as they have been ever since someone in the room crooked an instructive finger at a watching crony. When the estimate was finished it was that this year's cotton crop will...