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Halfway during the first act, August's eccentric, hypochondriac sister Delia Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Exposing Layers of Wilson's People | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

...personal agent. If the Jones bill, amended, passes the present Congress, a Hoover veto is viewed as a certainty. Thereupon Domestic Allotment will become the first business of a special session of the new Democratic Congress. In 1926 the Department of Agriculture's late Dr. William Jasker Spillman first seriously proposed Domestic Allotment. Professor Milburn L. Wilson of the Montana State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts is generally regarded as author of the plan in its present form. His associates in perfecting it include Henry Ingraham. Harriman, now head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Rogers R. Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Domestic Allotment | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

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