Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occassionally, "rustication" was employed as a punitive measure. The offending student was sent off to some rural area for several months, where he could simmer down and, at the same time, receive individual instruction, usually from a Harvard graduate. In several cases, however, this method also failed. One student, having been rusticated to Groton for his leadership in a dining hall riot to protest the inferior quality of the food, fell in love with the area and refused to return to the College...
After several years of wild inflation, Argentina is getting a massive dose of deflation. Partly this is the result of crop failures, which have cut rural buying power to the point where industrial workers are losing their jobs for lack of demand for their products. But another reason is that Juan Perón has embarked on a policy of credit restriction so drastic that many long-established commercial houses are being driven to accept short-term loans from private sources at interest rates ranging up to 10% a month...
...McCarthy showing was notably good in Democratic South Milwaukee, which is heavily Polish. Arthur Bliss Lane, former ambassador to Poland, had made a pro-McCarthy speech linking Reds in Government to failures of U.S. foreign policy. McCarthy also did well in two Irish wards of Milwaukee and in Republican rural districts throughout the state. He showed some weakness in German areas of North Milwaukee and in the middle-class suburbs, which are normally...
Wisconsin has a good balance of rural and urban voters, a record of alert citizenship and no tradition of following reactionary demagogues. From county to county it has considerable variety in occupation, national strains and religion, and yet McCarthy carried 69 of the 71 counties.*Under those circumstances, it is hard to see how McCarthy's appeal can be peculiar to Wisconsin...
Mehabad, cradle of the short-lived Kurdish Republic, is a rural slum today, thanks to the Teheran government, which punishes Mehabad's people by refusing to buy their tobacco crop. In a recent election in Mehabad, the Russian-sponsored candidate got 1,600 out of 1,900 votes...