Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same point applies to politics. Since urban population has grown and farm population has decreased, the "farm vote" is no longer the key factor that it once was. Many farmers now make at least part of their income at jobs in nearby towns (in 1955 U.S. farmers made 30% of their income from nonfarm sources), and are as likely to be affected by town political sentiment as they are to have an effect upon it. Don R. Massie, a paper-company salesman who is a Republican committeeman in Bloomington, Ill., says: "Farmers used to run everything in politics here...
...bulldozed and threatened into accepting "the so-called free way of life" that they had to plot their escape with cunning care. Back in Washington Zarubin apparently believed the Moscow version, for he suddenly demanded to see four of the redefectors' comrades, who happened to be in town for a "routine hearing" at the U.S. Immigration Service. "He wanted to influence our sentiments," one of these refugee sailors said of their talk with Zarubin. "He said our relatives were begging for our return and would forgive us, but the expression on his face contrasted completely with what he said...
...last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of Premier U Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Next day, with the help of virtually every available automobile in town, the party workers were as busy as well-trained Tammany heelers getting out the vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief stopover to check their enrollment at a straw-thatched party field headquarters conveniently located near by, and when the votes were cast, they were...
Hillbilly Boom. At last count, 121 hillbillies were dancing, singing and strumming on Jubilee, ambitious youngsters were washing dishes, waiting for their chance to howl their way to success, and Springfield had become accustomed to high-heeled guitar players breezing around town in expensive cars. Jubilee executives figure that they will squeeze about $2,500,000 out of country music this year...
...descendant of early New England settlers, including Roger Williams, Chafee was born in Providence R.I. on December 7, 1885. He was raised there and attended the town's university. At Brown, which the left in 1907 carring a Phi Betta Kappa Key, a summa citation, and an A.B., Chafee's chief interests were writing and Latin translation. In fact, he considers his two greatest achievements to be drafting the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934 and translating the anonymous Latin Poem Pervigilium Veneris while at Brown. After a few years of working for his father's manufacturing firm, reading Blackstone...