Word: ruralization
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...worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist Party "to protect the interests of cities and towns against rural domination...
There will also be representatives of the Highlanders Folk School present at this meeting. This school, which has been called by John Dewey "one of the most important social-educational experiments in America," is for the purpose of training rural and industrial workers for a new social order, and for conserving and enriching the native cultural values...
...announcement from Washington last week that $12,000,000 of Federal Emergency Relief Administration funds had been set aside to keep rural schools open took some of the wind from the conference's sails but none of the thunder from speakers' voices. Sounded were the same protests against school economies, the same warnings of national disaster which have been heard at every educators' conference for the past three years. "It is quite as important to balance the nation's life as to balance the nation's budget," cried University of Wisconsin's President Glenn...
...Vagabond drove by hills and valleys, through mill towns and the country seats of the mighty. He tarried at metropolitan hostelries and rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress...
...personified, has devolved the more important duty of preserving the organization. His control of Kansas City and Jackson County is undisputed. Every county officer is obligated to him, virtually every State officer owes his job to Pendergast support, and he personally lifted Governor Guy Brasfield Park from an obscure rural judgeship to the State House in 1933. Boss Pendergast finds politics "good business," supports a string of racehorses with his profits...