Word: ruralization
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Last week, Frederick Osborn started a new job: $1-a-year population consultant for the Division of Statistical Standards. In Washington, his work will consist of determining the effect of such govern mental innovations as Rural Resettlement, TVA. First problem: Do improved en vironments stimulate birth rates...
...busied himself lining up Midwest Democratic leaders and drafting Speaker William Brockman Bankhead to run the Southern sector of the campaign (headquarters in Birmingham), Democrats learned that their party's war chest is down to a minuscule $70,000. Candidate Henry Wallace planned to save money by touring rural districts in an Oldsmobile borrowed from his secretary, Jim Le Cron. Meantime Candidate Franklin Roosevelt took the opportunity to do some campaigning that was both economical and effective...
...Salem's is a sociable gathering, with the air of a happy rural community. Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...were jubilant over the physical and mental condition of the new soldiers. Cataloguing its new recruits (after rejecting 30%), the Army found that 62% had attended high school or college, the rest had grammar-school educations. The composite 1940 recruit is a blue-eyed, brown-haired 21-year-old, rural, native-born citizen with a high-school education, 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighing...
...Flowering of New England had been Emerson, Thoreau, Lowell, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes. In a prose stanza with the roll of an epic, Critic Brooks described their significance: "As heirs of the Revolution, they spoke for the liberal world-community. As men who loved the land and rural customs, they shared the popular life in its roots, at its source. As readers and students of the classics, they followed great patterns of behavior, those that Europeans followed also. In short, as magnanimous men, well seasoned, they wrote with a certain authority and not as the scribes. If they believed in progress...