Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party man as there was in the House: in the 18 times he has run successfully for election in his upstate New York district since 1918, he has never asked a voter to vote for him personally-only for the Republican party. His support comes principally from the rural voters in his district, and yet he was refusing as a matter of principle to extend EPT because he thought EPT damaging to business. Moreover, Reed believed that he was saving the Administration from itself; Treasury Secretary George Humphrey had acknowledged that EPT was a "bad tax," and had defended extension...
...split over presidential candidates, he pushed the Conservatives' silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez into office. Ospina, under the willful thumb of Gómez, felt obliged to return the favor in 1949. Clamping on a state of siege, using military police to drive Liberals from the rural polls, Ospina dutifully engineered Laureano's election...
John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, presently ranks among the world's leading agricultural economists. Black, who is author of "The Rural Economy of New England," was recently chairman of an advisory commission to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and is a former president of the American Farm Economics Association...
...Marseilles. Principal gainers were the independent parties ranging themselves behind ex-Premier Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing, inflation-fighting regime won tremendous popular prestige before its downfall in December. The French Communist Party held its impressive majority in working-class districts, but lost some support in rural constituencies...
...weighting of rural constituencies, where Boers predominate, worked as it does under the county-unit system in the U.S. State of Georgia; in the House of Assembly the Nationalists won 94 seats, the combined opposition 61. Malan, though second in the popular vote, increased his majority to an overwhelming 60% (from 13 seats...