Word: smalltowner
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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...
...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...
...midnight solitude of his office, John Doctor, smalltown physician, spread his books out on the desk, began casting up his accounts. He owed his landlord $700 in back rent. His bill at the grocers was $200. Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring...