Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after 1929-he is a low-rate, big-production man who has boosted his system's domestic sales to the highest average in the country (1,000 k.w.h. per domestic consumer per year). By business standards...
From this beginning, Director McCarey accelerates the comic pace, shows Lucy trying lamely but gamely to follow her new-found Oklahoma hearty (Ralph Bellamy) through the intricacies of "truckin'," singing prairie ballads in duo with him, listening to his tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith...
...objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs old Mr. Guggenheim's favorite of the moment, one of a series of four arrangements of circles and lines by Rudolf Bauer entitled Tetraptychon (see p. 36), but he is also extremely fond of two pictures by a young artist...
...corner of this country, at least, the pesky problem of the agricultural surplus has been solved. Right in line with all American principles of rugged individualism the solution came, not from black-capped college professors or brain trustees, but from the colored cook of that homespun novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king...
Died. Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously...