Word: ruralization
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...June primaries he will face Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen for the Republican Senatorial nomination. He alienated a large part of the Minnesota rural press by charging in the Senate that its editors were controlled by "big Eastern influences," because they disagreed with him on the tariff...
Snow fell as far south as Atlanta. Detroit and St. Louis were under a four-inch coating of winter. Rural roads in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan were impassably choked. The snowfall centred in Chicago where 19.1 inches, a record, swept down in 44 hours, to be twirled up by a 40-mile gale off Lake Michigan into ten-foot drifts...
...Fisher last year in the Legislature on a gasoline tax, incurred the Governor's enmity. Mr. Lewis has few friends among the rank and file of the party. When Gifford Pinchot announced his candidacy for Governor, it seemed likely that Mr. Lewis would be stripped of what small rural following...
...Geki apparently make their appeal to Eastern lovers of blood, thunder and lurid display. Their psychology seems about as complex, to untutored Western eyes, as that of The Perils of Pauline or Shenandoah. The actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...
...Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), he "established pneumatic tubes, ship-posts, pioneered for rural delivery, parcels post, postal savings, and fought for government ownership of telegraph and telephone." In 1896 he bought out A. T. Stewart, went into business in Manhattan...