Word: ruralization
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Returns from the rural districts, reputed strongholds of Prohibition, were slow coming in. But when a 37-to-1 Wet majority was recorded, with two-thirds of the votes in. Minister of Justice T. O. Kivimaki said: "Reason has conquered." Then he began to draft a Government bill for State Liquor Control. The electorate had understood from the first that such a bill would be drawn up should Prohibition fail to win. Technically, however, votes were cast...
Adams' dogged sense of fair play were not enough to keep a mob of Bible Belters from lynching Joe. Someone said that Joe had been caught kissing a white girl. As if the big lynching scene were insufficient drama for one evening. Playwright Theodore St. John sends his rural mobsters back to Adams' place a second time. They now want to settle with the city fellow for making up to Adams' wife. But stout Farmer Adams gets out his gun, settles his own particular triangle in his own particular way. Constructed and executed with sympathy and clarity...
Through its district banks the Farm Loan Board had outstanding advances of $1,171,000,000 to 408,000 rural borrowers on Nov. 30. About 23½% of these debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than...
...rural credit agency of the Treasury not to be confused with the Federal Farm Board and its loans to agriculture...
...last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 28) kindled indignation no less hot in his own 15th Pennsylvania District than elsewhere. While Postmaster General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst...