Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...
...committee of outstanding artists and showmen," but this time they have evolved the idea of consulting the leading Universities, which include, besides Harvard, Hobart, Black Mountain, Sturgeon Bay Teachers, Little Creek, Yale, Ripon, C.N.C.N.C.N.C.Y., the Hobo College, Pierre Foundation of Budding Studs, Rollins, and the newly founded Society of Agrarian Aggies...
...Minister-President's ultimatum the Nazi press added its thunder: "The mere publication of this decree should galvanize the last slackers in the agrarian production battle...
...passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since 1907, who has been twelve times Speaker of the Diet and who since last October has been Premier, was elected President. Significance: no Finnish political change...