Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rural constituencies of ignorant Roman Catholics were treated to a cinema in which the Virgin Mary was shown celestially aiding the Marshal and by implication favoring his party...
...rural communities devout...
...Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people go to church. There are 101,000 town and country churches in America. Two-fifths of them are standing still or losing ground. There are 38,000 rural churches, or 42% of all, which have no pastors...
Eldo Lewis Hendricks of Warrensburg, Mo.: "There is no greater problem in the field of education than the one-room rural school, and we have more than 150,000 of them. . . . Education fails to function in rural districts as certainly as democracy fails to function in a national election. . . . A teacher in the rural school gets $750 a year and a city teacher...
...purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland by such means as are comprehended within the meaning of the word charitable." Under the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine the trust has supported child welfare and rural development work, and built libraries...