Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direction in which the real football was not going. Since it is so important to give the exact number of people who saw the game, why not do the thing up right and say: "Returns which are now coming in from the Middle West, with some of the rural districts still to be heard from, indicate that at least 145,566 people watched the Yale-Prineton football game yesterday. Secretary Dinwoodie of the San Francisco Yale Club telegraphed late last night that the final count in that city would probably swell the total to a round 150,395. This...
...Massachusetts also, the creation of a state police force is being encouraged. The object of the House Bill No. 280 is to perform one of the most basic aims and distinctive functions of the government, namely, the protection of citizens living in the rural districts, where there are at present over 300,000 with totally inadequate police protection. This bill asks that an initial expenditure of $100,000 and an annual sum of $300,000 he provided for the establishment of a police force similar to those in New York and Pennsylvania. When hardly a week passes without the perpetration...
...People's Reconstruction League" is making plans to obtain the passage of legislation in Congress to accomplish the prompt restoration of the railroads to unified government operation; control of the meat packing industry by legislation; retention of the excess profits, estate and income tax on land holdings; short time rural credit system for farmers effected through a system of co-operative banks aided by the federal government; public ownership and development of all natural resources; and the defeat of compulsory military training...
...farmers of the state have again brought the question of Daylight Saving Repent before the General Court of Massachusetts. The renewed attempt to abolish the extra hour of daylight, which is now provided for by a state law, is backed by a systematic canvass of the rural districts of the state for signatures to a petition, in accord with the united protest of farmers throughout the country against daylight saving; their opposition being based on a claim that it causes difficulties in labor conditions...
College of Liberal Arts--Courses leading to the B.S., B.A., and M.A. degrees. Regular College subjects including courses in Physical Education, Religious Education, Rural Sociology, and Pre-Medical work...