Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspect that the Son-of-Ivan does not even now fully realize what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...
...question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
Ever since the hour of Alfred E. Smith's nomination, many a dry-rural-Democrat had waited for a McAdoodle. Finally, last week, 72 hours before the election, it came: "I am absolutely opposed to Governor Smith's position on Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, but I shall preserve my party allegiance." That was the telegram which Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo sent to two Georgia newspaper editors who had queried him. Was it too late, or didn't it matter...
...Kentucky to come back to the fold. With him was a surprising, brown-derbied travelling companion, Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the world's champion New York "Yankees." Campaigner Ruth addressed club and school audiences and spoke on the radio. To the consternation of Democratic leaders in rural sections, he related Nominee Smith's leadership in legalizing Sunday baseball. At Louisville, he caused excitement when his burly frame crushed the chair in which he was sitting on the platform...
Boston had been big-town gloria in excelsis! But now the Derby was skimming out into the chill dew of New England's rural Republicanism. There were fears lest it emerge bedraggled. So the Smith Special hurried until it reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...