Word: ruralization
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...bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University's Dr. Walter Boughton Pitkin (Life Begins At Forty) and Boston's liberal old Merchant Edward A. Filene spoke from New York...
...frustrated Irish Fascist. General O'Duffy was once a rural architect, joined the Irish Republican Army in 1917. Later he opposed Eamon de Valera with a blue-shirted Fascist army of his own (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933 et seq.), had recently faded from the Irish political scene...
...cases. . . . I even used to try to figure out in advance what they were going to do and then try to prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were 30 seconds ahead of me." Best-behaved, observed Guide Casey, are rural students. "I can pick them out every time. They take more interest in the displays, try to see everything and learn more than any of the others...
While Franklin Roosevelt was splashing in a glass-covered swimming pool, driving out to inspect Rural Resettlement and CCC projects, and generally amusing himself last week at Warm Springs, taunts were being hurled at him from a distance. Why, the taunters demanded, did he not do something about Sit-Down Strikes...
...derricks whose clanking activity built New London and London only a few years ago. Eleven of them stood on the school's grounds. The royalties they brought furnished most of the $1,000,000 which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless...