Word: ruralization
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...soon became apparent to Theodore Bilbo that his camp-meeting, rabble-rousing rant had a definite appeal for rural "red necks." He became known as ''The Pearl of Pearl River County," sometimes called himself "The Old Maestro of the Stump," but more often simply referred to himself in the third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria...
...reading is principally from Sorokin and Zimmerman's "Principals of Rural-Urban Sociology", which, in spite of the assertions of the Sociology department, can be reproduced by any undergraduate after reading the first few pages. It is a condensed version of the three-volume "Source Book in Rural-Urban Sociology" and the contents might very well be reduced another third. The summaries at the end of each chapter, if read carefully are more than sufficient...
Last week there was naturally no announced program of how Archduke Otto proposes to attain the Throne on which the King of Italy's daughter hopes to sit with him. Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan...
...fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...