Word: ruralization
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...last week President Roosevelt had a long talk with Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story...
...famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some $7,000,000,000, and private powermen have brewed a peculiarly vitriolic fear and hatred of the New Deal and all its power works...
...Harney. He was not satisfied that his priests were getting out among the 175,000 people (375 of whom are Catholics) who inhabit their parish of 13 counties. Father Harney returned to Manhattan. A lay friend suggested that a trailer-chapel, such as many a minister now employs in rural districts, might be helpful. The friend supplied $5,200 for a trailer, which was specially built, named St. Lucy,- and turned over to two young priests, Rev. James F. Cunningham and Rev. Thomas M. Halloran...
...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...
Thus there seemed no reason to suppose last week that any candidate could be nominated, much less elected, unless he or she is openly and zealously for the Party and the State of Stalin, except in distant or rural communities where, from the point of view of Moscow, the whole political apparatus may have "got into the wrong hands"-say those of the pious...