Word: ruralization
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...early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads, labor legislation and farm relief, he was speaking for thousands of poor, proud, stubborn, toiling men. They elected him governor thrice, sent him to the U.S. Senate for four terms as an insurgent Republican...
...Crest. Then, in 1934, the great opportunity beckoned. The Roosevelt landslide of 1932 had shaken Republicanism to its foundations. In rural Wisconsin, prices and incomes were down. When the La Follettes left the G.O.P. to found the Wisconsin Progressive Party, the restless voters rallied solidly behind them. By 1936 most of Wisconsin's state officers were Progressives, and the new party boasted Bob Jr. in the Senate, seven men in Congress, 16 in the State Senate and 48 in the State Assembly...
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
...history of a city or a nation may never be." Sometimes the very efforts of scholars to save their archives were what destroyed them. Reports the Bulletin: "When the great library of the Chapter of St. Thomas [in France] was threatened, it was hurriedly evacuated for storage in a rural area. There the books were destroyed ... by rain, mold, rats, mice and insects." The library itself was never damaged...