Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported that rural crimes are on the increase (up 7.5% over 1946), urban crimes on the decrease (down 2.3%). In rural areas, rape cases alone jumped 13.6% in the first six months of 1947. As of April 30, the U.S. had 1.75 cops for every 1,000 inhabitants, an increase...
...with little chance to win. The Eighth District is grumpy old Joe Grundy's home territory, one of the best-watered G.O.P. fields in the country. But it attracted the Democratic donkeys like an acre of fresh clover. The district is about evenly divided between labor and rural areas. And the Republican candidate was the man who had guided Pennsylvania's version of the Taft-Hartley Act through its legislature: slender, 37-year-old Franklin Lichtenwalter, Speaker of the state's House of Representatives. The Democrats figured that if they could bite off a good-sized section...
...Local Interest. In rural North Carolina, 2,068 brides & grooms waited & waited while the state supreme court weighed the legal status of the justice of the peace who had married them...
Gould & Goud's editorial staff is blonde Marjorie Beech, imported from England, where she was a telegraph operator in the WRENS. Because names make the Enterprise's news, Marjorie is working hard to develop its squad of eight rural correspondents, all hired because they had no experience. Last week, on one of his new radio programs, Editor Gould had all eight in for an ad-libbed chat. "How many people in Methodist Corner?" he asked one. "About 15 families," she told him. And how did she get the news?,Well, by telephone, mostly. "Are they...
...Many years ago a committee came to see me from an upstate rural county. . . . They then told me that they would let me know what the Republicans were paying for votes that year, and that if we would add a small amount to the price, we could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible...