Word: ruralization
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...from the funeral. Short, maternal, with brown wavy hair and blue eyes, she has, after 29 years of married life, grown to resemble her husband, especially about the small tucked-in mouth, the narrow eyes. She and Thaddeus Caraway met at Dixon College, Tenn. They both taught school in rural Arkansas. For a honeymoon they went to New Orleans. While her Washington friends were last week proclaiming her witty and wise, she with tears in her eyes was disclaiming all political pretensions. Said...
...savings and deposit banks, farm loan banks and the like would subscribe to H. L. D. B. capital stock. What they failed to contribute the U. S. Treasury would make up. Each H. L. D. B. would rediscount prime first mortgages of $15,000 or less on urban or rural homes. The subscribing members of each H. L. D. B. would turn in real estate paper and get back from the H. L. D. B. 50% of each short-term mortgage, 60% of each long-term one. Such rediscount loans would be limited to 25% and 30% of the "sound...
Everybody-Everywhere. "Seth Parker," composite of many an authentic Down East character, was conceived by Phillips Haynes Lord, 29. Graduate of Bowdoin College in 1925, Mr. Lord wrote unsuccessful short stories, then a radio sketch about rural life in Maine. Success came when he got a radio station in Hartford, Conn, to try out a scene in an old-time singing school, with "Seth Parker" as central figure. National Broadcasting Co. heard of it, signed up Author Lord. Dubious when he began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until...
...lonely cabin on Paradise Lake near Seattle, police found E. V. Maltby, onetime wealthy vice president & general manager of the defunct Rural Grain Co. of Chicago. He had grown a beard, stocked the cabin with provisions. He was held in Seattle jail for Chicago authorities on an indictment charging nine violations of the Grain Futures...
...carrying on a significant experiment. He is assembling reels of film to make clear the little-known life of other civilizations, such as the Eastern, and to illustrate the economic factors involved. He hopes to clarify the exaggerated impressions that are so current with regard to the severity of rural life; and show how these remote patterns of living are affected by disturbances in capitalistic civilizations. He wants the class to have something more vivid than cold statistics upon which to base their opinions. The experiment is being conducted in a tentative spirit, without faddism. He has no intention...