Word: farm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Light on Farms Sirs: In TIME, Aug. 14 is a letter from Mr. R. Wallace Brewster of Uniontown, Pa. in which the writer says, "In our country, where many of electricity's greatest uses have been invented . . . . only one-fifth of the farms are electrified. Compared with the so-called 'backward' European nations in which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas...
...Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
Creator of this startling masterpiece turned out to be a Missouri Negress, Flora Cornell Lewis. Born in Kansas, 36-year-old Mrs. Lewis has been painting since she was six, has never studied. Farm Life was done in a battered farmhouse near the little town of Marshall, Mo., where she lives with her husband, Dr. Percy Lewis, a Negro veterinary surgeon...
Problem's keynoter was the Rev. Guy F. Hershberger of Goshen, Ind., who declared: "Industrial coercion in any form, whether peaceful or not, is not scriptural.' It usually leads to violence." His proposed solution: a "return to the farm, where our people were always happy and successful," backed by a development of rural cooperatives and a church-financed program to purchase farms for young couples...
Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...