Word: ruralization
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...first, its primary duty, into the process of the second, whereby instead of general practitioners, specialists emerge, as the by-product of an intense program of research. The thousands of completely educated and competent graduates who have braved the financial and social rigors of general family practice, especially in rural districts, testify to the falsity of this accusation. Vanderbilt Hall, the Medical School's own House Plan, is another proof that the School's curriculum is centered about the student, not the laboratory. Lastly, the free access which the School has to three of the finest hospitals in America, represents...
...week a little band of sergeants walked into the Camp Columbia barracks of the very officers who had overthrown Machado. Firmly and none too politely the sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery. If it came to a showdown, they held the balance of power. Their leader was straightway made Chief of Staff and Revolutionary Leader of the Armed Forces. He was Top Sergeant...
...Board of Education has approved a budget of 130-odd million dollars, $2,000,000 higher than last year despite Mayor John Patrick O'Brien's requests to prune. The Board plans to fill two vacant superintendencies despite his orders not to. ¶ In North Carolina rural youngsters learned they might have to go to school six days a week, the Legislature having raised the State-supported school term (by which every school board gets a minimum grant) from six months to eight. To enable farm children to work in the fields their school terms must be telescoped...
...evaluating the work of high schools. Of much more immediate interest to educators was a conference at which schoolmen told Administration officials how bad things are in their districts. Result of this was that Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced that relief funds would henceforth be allotted to rural districts whose schools might otherwise be closed, and to rural and city schools for the education of illiterate adults (TIME, Sept. 4). Chicago and New York have made plans for adult courses. But the Relief Administration would not tell last week to what localities it was giving money...
...post where the revolution against the Machado regime originated, called upon their officers, politely asked some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers' revolt...