Word: ruralization
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...with slow-to-change bankers and suspicious Congressmen for the development of branch-banking. Said he: "In brief, the purpose of the legislation recommended is to supplement our system of unit banking by permitting the stronger and better managed city banks to carry on banking operations in the surrounding rural communities by means of branch offices. . . . Our present banking problem is one that concerns primarily and fundamentally the rural communities and which cannot be automatically solved by the return of general prosperity...
...first lesson in dissection had not repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London as herbalist headquarters and salesroom. Mrs. Leyel has a rural home near Bognor, Sussex, where King George convalesced from his chest ailments. At Bognor, it is said, certain of the Grieve-Leyel made their way into the royal dishes if not into the royal medicines...
...Mustang Jack" Garner. Besides, the Kleberg family are part owners of the immense King Ranch, largest single one in the U. S., which sprawls across 1,250,000 acres of Southeastern Texas and overflows into the Garner district. In 1925 Henrietta King, widow of Richard King, founder of this rural empire, died at the age of 90, tied her $25,000,000 property up in trust for ten years. A King daughter is Mrs. Alice Gertrudis Kleberg, mother of the new Congressman. After her is named Santa Gertrudis, the great ranch house at Kingsville where visitors are royally entertained, where...
...hospital for the criminally insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later released in the custody of his grandmother. A rural jury thought Herbert was a fairly hopeless case, felt that he should be locked up in Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life...
Alice Joy's start and "discovery" by radio are archetypal. Her start was sufficiently obscure. She used to be Frances Holcombe, daughter of a rural mail-carrier in Streator, Ill. At 9 she sang hymns for Chautauqua audiences, standing on a chair between two older sisters. At 18 she went into vaudeville, played every State but Texas as one of Will J. Ward's Five Piano Girls. Then she married a Captain E. Robert Burns, Wartime aviator turned vaudeville pressagent. She settled down on Staten Island, had two children, went in for gardening...