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...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
...Democrat for the State Senate in the Hyde Park district. Because the 26th district had, with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking. As much to his surprise as to anyone else's he was elected...
...useful legislation he has wangled out of a hostile Legislature with soft words and threats. He has put through an old age State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised his record on labor legislation. The Governor is now engaged in a stiff upping of income...
When a Vice-Admiral, a reformed Communist, a Rural Dean and a pioneer aviator meet in Geneva with an assortment of Germans, South Africans and Americans, they might discuss armaments, the opium traffic or a universal language. Such a group was in Geneva last week, but it was simple piety, not economics or politics, that brought it together. Misleadingly ominous were the invitations sent out for the meeting...
Also present in Geneva were Vice-Admiral Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe, R. N., and Prebendary Rich of St. Paul's in London. Prebendary Rich lent ecclesiastical prestige to the International House Party; but more satisfaction derived from the words of Canon Frank Child, vicar of St. Helen's and Rural Dean of Prescot, who wrote last week in the Church of England Newspaper: "Is this movement going to do what the Archbishop's Conference with us perhaps cannot do? Is it going to solve the reunion problem [TIME, Jan. 11]? I think it may contribute very much to that...