Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From an Electoral College standpoint, the new distribution, with its ten added votes in California and Michigan, gives normally Republican states an electoral gain while Democrats show a slight loss, reductions in much of the Solid South balancing other increases. The reapportionment also will increase urban versus rural representation, thus possibly aiding the Wet cause...
Whoopee. "Here is another of Mr. Ziegfeld's sumptuous durbars, a large and glittering ceremonial with Mr. Cantor at the comic centre of its parades. . . . The celebration earns the right to be called magnificent. ... He (Florenz Ziegfeld) employs the expensive Eddie Cantor . . . the prodigal Mr. Urban. ... He inspires the lazy silkworms to weave new and fabulous fabrics. . . ."-Percy Hammond in the Herald Tribune...
...deporting back to the countryside peasant families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes to spend $375,000,000 during the next...
...years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train...
Significantly enough the more urban and proletarian members of the Communist Party dominated by Dictator Josef Stalin 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...