Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them of their pride of profession but would reduce all U. S. banking to its lowest level. They saw their deposits which they had spent a lifetime to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...
...Carter Glass. But Senator Glass had accepted the guarantee clause only as the cheapest and safest price he had to pay to the radical majority of Congress for passing the rest of his cherished bank reforms. The bill's other author was Alabama's Henry Bascom Steagall, smalltown lawyer and chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee who spoke for the "little bank" crowd. The measure went through the House 262-to-19 and not one "nay" was raised against it in the Senate. Minor differences in the two drafts were being composed in conference...
Hans Pinneberg, 23, was a smalltown bookkeeper, a decent but rather timid sort. Cupid drove an arrow straight through Hans's heart when he and pretty young Bunny met on a temporarily deserted beach. Before they even knew each other's names they were married in every sense but the legal. Then a baby threatened, so they got married legally. Pinneberg lost his job, because his boss had wanted him for a son-in-law; there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that...
...MERIWETHER MYSTERY - Kay Cleaver Strahan - Crime Club ($2). When the smalltown police were baffled by too many clues, Lynn MacDonald selected the murderer from among the eight remaining boarders...
...Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends...