Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Bunting last night outlined a program which would take advantage of the unique situation of the rural woman's college; she proposed that such colleges admit a number of girls who are 16 and 17 years...
...disheartening offshoot of the rural problem, the peasants are stampeding to the cities and creating an acute urban problem: festering slums...
...York Mayor Robert F. Wagner asserted last night that the Supreme Court's recent reapportionment decision would help the cities in their fight to secure relief for urban problems. The Mayor dwelled on his own trouble as a Democratic mayor pitted against a "Republican state legislature dominated by rural districts and interests...
Wagner said that the Supreme Court's ruling (which gives the federal courts power to determine whether the apportionment of seats in state legislatures violates the Constitution) will be a great weapon in eliminating the "disproportion in representation between cities and rural areas...
...Mayor lashed out at Governor Nelson Rockefeller and other "liberal Republicans who supposedly act in the City's interest. Rockefeller wants to be a liberal in New York City and a conservative upstate," said the Mayor. But because of pressure put on him by Republican leaders from rural areas, the governor "will never really represent the City," he concluded...