Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American democracy is to be preserved, the American people must know what is involved in democracy. They are too much inclined to identify democracy with political institutions. Historically this interpretation is inaccurate. The American people in the days of the frontier and simple agrarian life achieved a rough economic democracy long before they achieved political democracy...
...most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
Hard pressed for ammunition in the campaign, his political enemies spread scandalous lies that his kinky hair and heavy features were signs of Negro blood, that the 350-acre farm to which he frequently retires with his vivacious, red-headed wife, is only a device to gain agrarian support. He drives an Auburn, golfs in the 90's, goes duck-hunting. Impressed by his vigorous campaign and easy victory, Presidential supporters of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon promptly boomed Nominee Brooks for keynoter at the Republican National Convention...
FISH ON THE STEEPLE-Ed Bell- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). In late years attentive observers have noted two contrasting literary movements developing in such centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow...
...peasants too have begun to disapprove of Japan's policy with respect to China," continued Proletarian Kato. "At first the Japanese peasantry were under the influence of Japanese nationalistic propaganda. However, as a result of the acute agrarian crisis of 1931-32 and the ensuing famine in the northeastern parts of Japan, the peasants have recently grown more rebellious and the number of farmer uprisings has been increasing...