Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From its county agents who have talked with smalltown bankers, who have bounced along rural roads to look at farms and talk with farmers, the U. S. Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gets the figures which enable it to make its monthly forecasts. Last week the Board met in Washington and pondered pages of cotton statis tics. The windows were carefully shaded as they have been ever since someone in the room crooked an instructive finger at a watching crony. When the estimate was finished it was that this year's cotton crop will...
Until President Warner took charge, McCall's was distinctly a smalltown magazine. In 1919 it gave its last rosebush subscription premium...
...life." Since she is not yet 46, there appears to be considerable work ahead of her. How sincere and dedicated her fol lowing is will be more accurately determined between now and November. The real strength of the Sabin organization lies in the desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly...
...paper, the New Haven Times, was sold for $10,000 to the neighboring Journal-Courier, which promptly junked it. In Michigan two other obscure Macfadden sheets, the Lansing Capital News and Greenville News, were expected to be disposed of momentarily. Some time ago Macfadden sold another pair of Michigan smalltown sheets. (None of these five was a tabloid, none bore the Macfadden fleshpot hallmark.) Remaining in his hands are the only Macfadden papers which have ever made money:* Automotive Daily News, Investment Daily News, Philadelphia tabloid Daily News...
...week beat Washington State 28 to 14, later accepted an invitation to go West to play Southern California in the Tournament of Roses, Jan. i. Tennessee, which since 1926 has won 52 games, lost two, tied three, went North to play N. Y. U. It was a triumphant trip. Smalltown citizens-especially firemen in full uniform-cheered the team at station after station. Liveliest demonstration occurred at Bristol, whose main street is the State line between Virginia and Tennessee. Citizens escorted Tennessee's most famed back, Eugene Tucker ("Wild Bull," "Bristol Blizzard," "Black Knight") McEver across the platform...