Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...American Medical Association has set up machinery to help "the resettlement of these individuals in a spirit of friendly cooperation with unfortunate colleagues." But the A.M.A. gets no friendly cooperation from most state medical societies. Among the least hospitable states are several in which rural communities have been crying for doctors-such as Wisconsin, where Dr. Joachim Bronny was rejected in 1948, despite pleas made for him by the doctorless village of Fairchild...
Silent Amnesty. Rural districts were equally peaceful. The peasants had declared a silent amnesty for many guerrillas who had returned home from the mountains. At Agios Georgios on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, the polling place was the schoolhouse from which guerrillas last year had kidnaped the teacher. An election committee of village elders-all with white mustaches, goatskin jackets and shepherd's crooks-presided over the poll. When an American reporter entered they said in chorus: "All is quiet...
...power. That Labor suffered an undeniable setback in these circumstances indicates grave British doubts about the long-range -aspects of the Labor program. ¶ Labor almost held its own in the big cities. The Tories have made no appreciable headway among industrial workers. The increased Tory vote in rural and semi-rural areas resulted from better Tory vote-getting organization. With near-success, this improved organization can be expected to continue...
...statement of principles endorsed a balanced budget, decreased federal expenditures, a general tax reduction, but it also urged expansion of social-security coverage and benefits, further rural electrification, federal aid to states for "subsistence, shelter and medical care." It urged freer world trade but it insisted that U.S. industry and farmers be protected from the products of "underpaid foreign labor." It stoutly opposed the Brannan Plan but it promised the farmer "fair" support prices...
Short of Ideal. Scientist Murdock's challenge got a quick answer. The Rev. William J. Gibbons, of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, rose to the defense of premarital chastity. "Man," said Jesuit Gibbons, "is a moral being . . . Man's reason, properly used, can still tell him what ought to be, even if his concrete behavior falls short of the ideal . . . Sex, like any other tendency in man, must be regulated by reason. Man, not being governed by the detailed instincts of lesser animals, would find his tendencies running wild were he not to regulate them by reason...