Word: ruralization
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Greatly favored was the Governor, whose strength lies in rural districts, by Georgia's primary system of county unit voting, a version of the nation's Presidential Electoral College plan. Each of Georgia's 159 counties casts no less than two nor more than six primary votes. Hence Echols County, with 300 votes, is one-third as influential as Fulton County (Atlanta), with 30,000. Any three back-country counties can offset the vote of the State's largest city, help give victory to a candidate with a minority popular vote...
Last week a caravan of seven dusty Army automobiles drew up before the courthouse in Springfield, Baca County, Colo., cradle of the Dust Bowl. Out of the cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...
...contrast with nuggets of contemporary wisdom. Sometimes he merely lists ordinary, everyday greetings to suggest the breezy friendliness of his hero: Where you been so long? What good wind blew you in? These themes are interspaced with examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled...
...beheld last week the spectacle of a great white yacht from which small white objects flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin...
...grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson and the talent of U. S.-born Lady Mendl scored heavily again when His Majesty, just before leaving on vacation, commissioned Elsie de Wolfe Inc. to sweep stuffy Victorianism and plush out of stately Buckingham...