Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before attending a State Department briefing on foreign affairs, Scranton appeared before a special House committee studying President Johnson's program to eradicate poverty in the Appalachian states. Scranton was all for the idea, but he thought that some severe flaws in the Johnson program ought to be corrected...
...Pageant. But all this was only a beginning. In the middle of the week, he went on a whirlwind 2,500-mile, two-day, six-state anti-poverty pilgrimage through the Appalachian region. It was a frenzied pageant. Some of the scenes...
While the President of the U.S. last week toured the Appalachian areas of poverty, bringing attention once more to the fact that unemployment as well as prosperity is a major fact in the land, statistics showed that the paradox of the employment situation is becoming even more pronounced...
Galbraith asserted that in spite of general increases in national and personal income, some people remain poor today because they lack necessary mental and physical skills. These people are now located principally in congested urban areas and in the rural Appalachian Plateau running from eastern Pennsylvania to Alabama...
Cecil Dawkins, a handsome 36-year-old woman graduate of the University of Alabama, falls within most of these categories. Her special region is the inland South and the primitive or recessive social types of the trans-Appalachian Piedmont. Within her limits, she is very good indeed...