Word: ruralization
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Because the farmers of that rocky, rural little State were frozen in by November, Maine long ago began holding its State elections in September. Because its farmers and townsmen seemed permanently frozen solid in Republicanism, GOPoliticians fostered the slogan that "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." Because the nation has sent Republican Presidents to the White House in all but five elections since the Civil War, the venerable saw has gained currency, though not validity. It is not even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September...
...necessity of sending Tennessee relief workers to Arkansas is not made clear," retorted Tennessee WPAdministrator Harry S. Berry. "The relief clients at work on projects in the city of Memphis are not rural people and they probably could not pick over 60 to 70 pounds in a day of ten hours and would therefore receive not more than 7? per hour for their labor, and in addition they would have to travel 70 miles a day to and from their work. These jobs would not provide a subsistence wage...
...association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most of the agenda might have been phrases culled from Franklin Roosevelt's "non-political" campaign speeches: "The Public Regulation of Private Electric...
...Next day Rural Electrification Administrator Cooke and Major General Edward M. Markham, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, hastily issued an edict against "political" speeches. New Dealers continued their "non-political" power campaigns. Dr. Harlow S. Person (Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects...
This desertion by its heir of the main capital of the great mail order empire is partly due to personal reasons - he and his family have become confirmed Philadelphians - and partly to the course of empire. The mail order business is by nature best designed for rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck...