Word: rural
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Last week the President also: ¶Nominated Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor Ancher Nelsen, 48, to be Rural Electrification Administrator, replacing Claude Wickard who resigned by request. A rawboned, farm-bred son of Danish immigrants, Nelsen is a longtime partisan of the farmer...
...last 30 years, thousands of farm families have moved to the cities, but the folks who stayed behind still stubbornly refuse to give up their schools. Last week State Superintendent Freeman B. Decker announced the result: the number of farm kids has dropped 50%, the number of rural schools only 5%. Of the 6,400 rural school districts left, 2,106 have ten pupils or less. And 200 schools have no pupils...
CLAUDE WICKARD resigned as Rural Electrification Administrator. A Hoosier hog farmer who went to Washington in 1933 to help man the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Wickard was one of the promoters of the early New Deal's pig-killing experiment, worked closely with Henry Wallace, rose to Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45). When Harry Truman chose Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary, Wickard was taken care of at REA. The law creating REA specifies that its administrator shall be appointed for ten years. With three years of his ten-year term still before him, Wickard at first resisted the request...
...Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. A brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life, with fresh variations on the Henry James theme (TIME, March...
...Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. A brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life, with searching variations on the Henry James theme (TIME, March...