Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement. An awkward Latin American wrinkle this year has been the bitter renewal of the eleven-year-old U. S.-Mexican quarrel over agrarian land expropriations. Last week. Secretary Hull released a cordial exchange of notes with Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, embodying a settlement...
...were millionaires, both were machine-backed professional politicians who have long aspired to the presidency. Smallish but strongly built Candidate Gustavo Ross, who made his millions as a stockmarket operator and now annoys Chileans by keeping most of his money safely abroad, was supported by the Liberal, Conservative and Agrarian parties. His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri...
...forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning shadows...
...Mexican who has been paid is Gabino Vazquez, chief of the Federal Agrarian Department For his expropriated farm and 50 cows in suburban Atzcapozalco, President Cardenas let him have 100,000 gold pesos...
...months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which...