Word: ruralization
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...nonessential industries are to reduce by 20% the number of men they employ; so will the State. Where necessary they may hire women as replacements. The men set free are to be eased into farm work, backbone of Minnesota's economy, by means of State-financed urban & rural farm labor recruiting offices and rehabilitation of skilled oldsters...
Thus ended a luncheon in Peoria last week that made American church history. For the first time ever, a non-Catholic delegation of religious leaders was officially entertained and received at a national Catholic conference. The occasion was the 20th annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (TIME...
...N.C.R.L.C. president, Bishop Aloisius J. Muench of Fargo, N.D., welcomed the guests of other faiths. "Cooperation of all is required," he said, to strengthen rural life. At convention's end the conference went still further along the road of cooperation, elected a Protestant-Dr. Oliver Edwin Baker, professor of economic geography at the University of Maryland-to its board of directors...
...wide and firm that stand can already be was indicated by the scope of the projects discussed at the Council's first meeting. Among them: rural reconstruction, the home and family life, chaplaincies among munition workers, youth, prisoners of war, the position of churches on the Continent, post-war reconstruction of Europe and the Far East...
...girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled down with his third wife, the sari-wearing Nancy Miller, Seattle sorority girl. Junior also married an American girl, the former Mrs. Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables in his province one of the few rays of hope they have seen in India. He banned child marriage, sponsored educational reform. His palace had air conditioning, western plumbing, a telephone exchange. His hunting parties were lavish and invariably successful (two crack native shots...