Word: ruralization
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...rambling its countryside for 17 years, helping build for the Cedar Rapids Gazette a circulation of 45,000, for himself a 242-lb. girth and a reputation as a top U.S. newspaper farm page editor. This week 55-year-old Anderson moved to broader pastures. His new beat: the rural Midwest, as a roving editor of Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (TIME...
...deep bass that they would never go with the G.O.P. so long as it was run by Spangler-type men. His Iowa friends have lately noticed in Anderson's "Out on the Acres" column a leaning toward conservatism, see election-year significance in his move to the rural journal of Philadelphia's Old Guardsmen Joseph and Howard...
Many Roman Catholics believe that the root of modern social unrest is the separation of city people, especially industrial workers, from the soil. In Ohio last week a Catholic Rural Life Bureau director was engaged in a small back-to-the-land experiment to bring them together. The experimenter: Father Joseph V. Urbain, pastor of Queen of Peace Church, Millville (30 miles north of Cincinnati; population...
From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...
...without telephones, beyond telegraph service, get advance information on blizzards breaking fast over the bitter Montana ranch lands. Farmer Jones's wife can sleep at night when KFBB finally tells her that Farmer Jones is safe in town and not freezing on some snowy butte. Most of the rural schools have radios, and warnings like the following are a winter commonplace: "The teacher at the Pleasant Val ley school should not let the children start for home this afternoon because the roads are blocked," or "The children of Pleasant Valley school are safe. . . ." Tickets, Please. Such personal messages...