Word: ruralization
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...Land to the Peasants!" Most effective slogan used by Lenin & Trotsky to rally rural Russians to their Red standard in 1917 was "Land to the Peasants...
Leaping Parson. Two years after William Knudsen arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most...
...Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising has become a fad among rich rural connoisseurs. With only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president was Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, onetime Manhattan playboy and second husband of Constance Bennett, who settled down few years...
...devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated at $2,000,000 a year, to educate peasant children in rural schools run by Army officers. At least 100,000 peasants, to judge from their delirious enthusiasm, last week approved "The Savior's" scheme, agreed with him that it was a "prime necessity...
...Madison's and Wisconsin's two first citizens, living in the proudest houses in town, Governor La Follette and President Frank politely called on each other, pleasantly nodded at Badger football games. Governor Phil, worldly wise, did not share the resentment of many a rural legislator at President Frank's suavity, his well pressed clothes, the fact that he spoke with a soft cultivation belying his birthplace, Queen City, Mo. And as Phil had been the youngest U. S. Governor, so Glenn Frank had been (until Chicago's Hutchins) the youngest chief executive of a major...