Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sounds. But there had been a change in the picturesque land. In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms. Its cornerstones were the church and the big family, an economic necessity in the rural economy...
Last week, rural Georgia was comfortable again. After nearly four years of wearing the laundered government of chubby Governor Ellis Arnall (who cannot succeed himself under state law), she had gone back to his skinny, wild-eyed predecessor, 61-year-old ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge's once discarded political union suit still smelled of demagoguery, Klan support and white supremacy. But it felt easy in the seat...
Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...
...tired, bitter man, racked with illness that will not leave him, "red gallus" Talmadge stumped the rural counties of Georgia, the "cracker country," hoarsely shouting his paean of white supremacy and fanning the flames of race hatred. He stuck to the back country, because it has always been Talmadge territory, and because he knew that in Georgia it's country units, not popular votes, that win elections. By last night, Talmadge had 249 units in his pocket, with only 206 necessary for election...
With Quaker faith in good works, Thomas Jones decided to give his students community chores. A Nashville judge paroled young Negro offenders to Fisk "custody." Soon Fisk "internes" were running social centers in Nashville's tawdry red-light district, in rural Whiteville, in Indianapolis, had made case studies of racial tension in 67 cities. By 1944, local hostility had retreated enough for Fisk to hold an interracial institute at Nashville, with whites and Negroes sharing dormitories and dining rooms...