Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important issue of these is question number five. If a majority of voters cheek "yes," Massachusetts will get a flat statewide rate for its compulsory automobile insurance. At present the state is divided into zones, with the highest rates in heavily populated sections and lower costs in rural districts. Thus, strong Republican districts--Cape Cod, for example-- must defend their low rates at the polls or suffer an increase next year...
...years Dewey has kept dissident Republican politicians in check with the threat that "he would soon be in the White House." The 1948 election exploded that myth for everyone except Dewey's closest advisers. If enough rural Republicans in northern New York stay away from the polls or refuse to vote for Dewey because of his "dictatorial" rule of the state, the governor may not have a large enough majority to overcome Lynch's Democratic sweep of New York City...
...small rural towns...
...Price We Pay. Dr. Boisen, a Congregational minister, had spent six years in rural church work before serving in World War I as an A.E.F chaplain. At 44 he discovered that mental illness was a part of his own religious experience. A nervous collapse put him in a mental hospital for two years...
...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...