Word: ruralization
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...were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that a number of subversive organizations had been rooted out; that people had been terrified by many hundreds of domiciliary searches made by rowdy and violent Fascisti; that scores...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...which has reacted so energetically to the racial humors of Abie's Irish Rose. It is the story of a Jewish family which has prospered and come to live luxuriously in the city. Poor old papa is disconsolate among the steam heating and elevators. Finally they return to rural quietude. Louis Mann plays papa with explosive and characteristic ingenuity...
...official rediscount rate is again becoming "effective." This move may or may not presage higher interest rates generally, but it puts the Reserve in a stronger position to check undue speculation if such a step becomes necessary. Thus far the demand for credit comes from metropolitan rather than rural sections...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -The Italian grape-grower of California who summons by mail a wife to grace his rural opulence. But he had white hair, while his hired man was young and handsome. Pauline Lord obliges with the greatest performance of the season...