Word: ruralization
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Women had no part in the Presidential drama. Mme Doumergue, 12-day bride of the outgoing President, impatiently awaited the bridegroom at her rural estate near Toulouse. Mme Doumer, wife of the incoming President, ate lunch with her husband on the great day?no more...
...first act of the altruistic-but-wise men and King Carol last week was to decree that hereafter 10% shall be the maximum interest payable by any rural debtor in Rumania. Heretofore village loan sharks have bled many a hard-pressed farmer to economic death by loans at 60% plus...
Boss Crump has long been itching to smash the Horton-Lea-Caldwell combine. The Lea-Caldwell collapse gave him his chance. But he is not popular in rural Tennessee where he is denounced as a "boss of a city machine." To this his henchmen reply: "Why, Ed rode into Memphis from a Mississippi farm at the age of 18 on a bull calf...
...Chicago last week the Factor case was still in a stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine...
...ideal success-story would show President McInnerney setting out on his march to dairy tycoonship along a pretty, rural cow path. But he admits and does not lament the fact that he has never milked a cow, never attempted it. He was raised in Dubuque, went to University of Illinois where he studied pharmacy. For five years he owned and ran a drugstore in Chicago. This he found less to his liking than he had expected and his next experience was the general managership of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Manhattan department store. In 1914 he returned to Chicago, formed Consumers...