Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...
...typical small-town newspaper is the News-Commercial, published in Collins, Miss. (pop. 1,100) by a typical smalltown editor: Mayor and onetime Lawyer James Duncan Arlington. Unlike many another small-town newspaper, the four-page, weekly News-Commercial (circulation: 1,350) does not take itself too seriously. Once it printed a list of delinquent subscribers under the head: "Shall the Dead Live Again?" Lately it quipped editorially: "We see ... where they have started a new kind of paper [the tabloid, PM] in New York. No advertisements will be carried in it. There ain't nothing new about that...