Word: ruralization
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...aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy" to Decatur in neighboring, rural Morgan County, began last week...
Jurors were then picked, sworn in. The prosecution concentrated on rural talesmen. The defense wanted young white-collar men who might have come in contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
...private business. The taxes hit Montevideo, Uruguay's only sizeable city and one-quarter of its population. The graft kept the Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...
...There will have to be a readjustment of many mortgages, urban as well as rural. Last week in ever-radical North Dakota...
...possibilities, immediately precipitated, hotter than ever, familiar arguments between interested parties. As emergency measures the President's bank, beer and economy bills were practically undebatable. Farm Relief, a hard old rock on which three other administrations stuck, loomed as the first dangerous test of White House leadership. Most rural Senators and Representatives agreed that it was "a pretty good bill" but nowhere was there any red-hot belief in its magic...