Word: ruralization
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...tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They fed at any sympathetic farmhouse. In guerrilla bands they were able to swoop on a village, overpower the Rural Guard, canter off to the hills with arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From band to band went couriers, reporting arms shipments and the Government's moves. Now leaderless, the bands "await...
...news that Ortiz was coming, the rebels flickered among the hills like fireflies. They attacked a Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted...
Appreciative of the School's services the Greek government provided in 1931 by Act of Parliament for the training of 200 scholarship boys in the next eight years. Through the School's rural extension work all Greece benefits by the introduction of American methods. The American Farm School exerts an influence far beyond its immediate environs, for the economic stability of paramount importance to present day Greece and to the peace of the Balkans...
Lawrence Hanley who is one of a band of scholars roaming the rural U. S. to note and map its regional dialects before they become obsolete. In about ten years the U. S. will have a complete Linguistic Atlas. Workers are still occupied with New England, where the Atlas was begun two years ago (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Professor Hanley got his cowthumpiana by personal interview, from 262 sources. Naturally cowthumping is more prevalent in rural districts than in urban centres. Yet sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started...
Guardsmen's guns kept the peace at strife-torn Le Mars, Iowa, last week while a military court worked up evidence for the civil prosecution of those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers...