Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's waiting room in rural England is taking the place once occupied by the vicarage, says British Journalist Ronald Duncan in Punch. "As any doctor will now confirm, at least 20% of his patients are not suffering from any physical ailment whatever. These people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
...Goes the Farmer. Leo Hoegh's political problems are all bound up in the character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...confidence of an old master, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin, 58, campaigned this month for a third term as the island's governor-a job first held (in 1509) by Juan Ponce de Leon. Wearing the usual rumpled seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long after midnight. Occasionally...
...speaking in earnest on the hustings. Running for governor, Gene was charged with dishonesty during his term as commissioner of agriculture; he had once shipped Georgia hogs to Chicago to find a higher price, wasted $11,000 in state funds. Gene laughed off the criticism in his speeches to rural voters: "Sure, I stole it, but I stole it for you." The explanation delighted the hard-pressed countrymen. They rolled up the Talmadge vote. The Talmadges moved into the ugly stone governor's mansion in Atlanta's posh Ansley Park. Because Gene and Mattie (known to two generations...
...overpower the cities. Example: the total of 1,996 voters registered in Chattahoochee, Quitman and Echols Counties, at two unit votes per county, can offset 125,000 in six-vote Fulton County (Atlanta). Since candidates can win by carrying 103 small counties, the wisest ignore the cities, woo the rural voters...