Word: ruralization
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...President put his signature on Senator George Norris' Rural Electrification Bill, under which the Government will lend $50,000,000 in the coming year, $40,000,000 for each of the nine years thereafter for rural electrification. Night before that he had his most pleasant conference of the week. With Felix Frankfurter at his side, he welcomed Senators Norris, Wagner, Minton. Wheeler, Schwellenbach, Shipstead, La Follette. They assured the Press afterward that it was nothing but a friendly chat. So friendly was the gathering of nine arch-liberals that it lasted from 8:30 o'clock...
...down to the details of his Plan. He conceded that a transactions tax to raise pensions funds would involve the licensing of every farmer, collection of a tax on every sale from a dozen eggs to a bale of cotton. Had he ever pointed that out to his rural followers...
...jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry on his incomplete PWA program and Administrator Hopkins got a bigger slice with which, besides doles, to experiment with work relief, surplus farm commodities and rural rehabilitation. In the third stage (1935-36) President Roosevelt himself became the big relief man with $4,880,000,000 to allot as he saw fit. Secretary Ickes got the spending of only $440,000,000 of that amount, of which $100,000,000 was for housing. Administrator Hopkins spent...
...Senators began looking into the matter, it appeared that Administrator Hopkins was going to be the only fish left in the relief pond. Of the $1,425,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year all was allotted to him. Some $85,000,000 was set aside for rural rehabilitation, but the bill specified that Mr. Hopkins, not Dr. Tugwell, was to spend it. For Secretary Ickes and his Public Works there was not a cent. Dr. Tugwell kept smiling when these facts were brought out, admitted that under the terms of the bill his 17,000 employes would...
...first time an American sociological work in a specialized field will be published in Japanese when "Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology," by Pitriam A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, appears on the archipelago this fall...