Word: ruralization
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...unreflective sentiment in favor of justice by extra-legal methods cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue...
...Tree (by Richard Maibaum; Ira Marion, producer). Ed and Denny and Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...
Reduced allowances to rural mail carriers for motor maintenance...
...influence of the McClatchys beyond their rural constituencies does not approach that which Editor Rowell wielded in his prime. Lecturer on political science, regent of the University of California, member of the National Crime Commission, Institute of Pacific Relations and many another body, he is still regarded by oldsters as the sage of the Pacific Coast. Long active in politics, he was most conspicuous as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in the Hughes campaign for President. Hughes's loss of California to Wilson was popularly ascribed to his failure to handshake California's Governor Hiram Warren Johnson, then...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a respected, serious-minded legislator of average ability who realizes that polite co-operation and not rude independence is the secret of Senate progress; a tame, well-mannered critic of the existing order who is also a politician smart enough to give rural Minnesota the kind of representation it wants. A prolonged illness several years ago seriously curtailed his Senate activities. His term expires March...