Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispersed to their homes but their spokesman declared: "We'll be back soon enough, if Stauning doesn't do what's right!" That there was no violence last week in the Royal Palace square was due largely to the Farmers' Association which appealed to city folk: "Go down to the street, find a farmer, and invite him to spend the night with you!" Response was so wholehearted that all 50,000 farmers had been comfortably bedded and adequately breakfasted by sagacious city folk before they set out to mob Amalienborg Palace...
...vacuous is vast Canada that the 90,000 assorted farmers, fox-breeders, lobster folk, oystermen and smugglers who have ample room on the 2,184 square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
...After his realms and states were moved To bare their hearts to the King they loved, Tendering themselves in homage and devotion, The tide wave up the Channel spoke To all those eager, exultant folk: ''Hear now what man was given you by the ocean...
...plump and gentle little body of 58, Mrs. Mahnkey's journalism is only a sideline. What she is really interested in is her poetry, which Missouri literary folk like Rose Wilder Lane would like to see properly published. A contributor of verse, letters and farm gossip to Country Home for years, Mrs. Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited...
...shook their heads and said the corn was more important. Younger Iowans had been singing for months, singing while they plowed and planted, milked their cows and fed the hens. Frequently they would do their chores before dawn, drive all day to rehearse at county meetings with other farm folk. Result: an all-rural production...