Word: ruralization
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...spite of the old adage about Maine, Ohio is a better U. S. political microcosm. A microcosm of Ohio is the six-county 17th District. In every Presidential election since 1912, the six counties now composing the 17th District have gone with the winning wind. Divided 75% rural, 25% industrial, the 17th has never been stampeded. Small shifts in its votes are portentous...
...Education, were anti-Long. Totally destroyed in New Orleans was the Louisiana Democratic Association that Huey set up when he was getting control of the city. And out through the State's remaining 63 parishes (Louisiana equivalent of counties) the potent parish sheriffs, who bulk large in Southern rural life, were put in their place: 41 sheriffs were for Earl Long, but he carried only 14 of their parishes...
Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...
...Agriculture wanted more "basic research" (i.e., new inventions), to absorb more agricultural workers: "In the decade just preceding the high days of 1929 seventeen million young people between 15 and 30 years of age left the farms and found employment in the towns. But for the past ten years rural population has been damming up in rural districts." He also boosted a basic crop: "We should never forget that rural districts constitute the great breeding ground of America. Yet the farmer today has lost the market for his greatest of all crops -his baby crop...
...known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education, etc.); Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; the Pilgrim Fund (to serve "the most vital needs" of Great Britain...