Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail public works projects, throw thousands out of work. He has divided huge estates into small peasant holdings, but has been unable to advance the peons...
Neutral observers in Mexico City judged that President Cardenas and his associates have only just realized what economists have known for months: that his agrarian decrees of the past year have had many disastrous results. Total production of such Mexican staple crops as wheat, corn and cocoa has shrunk sharply partly due to drought, partly to inefficient working of lands divided and parceled out among the peons...
...main criticisms was that "The contralized agrarian program takes money from the middle and poor classes in the United States in proportion as they are poverty stricken. The relief authorities give it back to the very poor. The net sufferers are the middle classes...
...decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between the high brow and the horny hand. To this rebel activity Caroline Gordon has contributed a five-generation family chronicle (Penhally), a novel glorifying the unindustrialized purity of a sportsman (Aleck Maury: Sportsman...
This first sharp clash between Cedillo, former Minister of Agriculture who split with pudgy-cheeked President Lazaro Cardenas over the Government agrarian policy (TIME, Aug. 30), and Leftist Laborites, Mexican observers last week interpreted as the opening volley of a Mexican Right v. Left struggle. Unorganized, Mexican Rightists have been unable to present any formidable opposition to the 42-year-old "social revolution" of President Lazaro Cardenas. But last week, news-wise correspondents saw the Rightists rallying around swarthy-skinned General Cedillo, predicted that Mexico contained the makings of a little Spanish civil...