Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crystal Room of Washington's Burlington Hotel, two exiled agrarian leaders from Russian satellite states faced the press last week. "I hope," said Bulgarian Peasant Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff,* "that I speak better English than Stalin speaks democracy...
...Bulgaria, Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov suddenly discovered a "plot" involving stubborn Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition Agrarian Party, which holds about a quarter of the seats in the National Assembly. As he was led away by the police, Petkov shouted: "This is nothing but a prolongation of what has already happened in Hungary...
...That, he hopes, will not only ease the pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from the threatening encroachment of ejidos...
...went to the president of the local Fascist Agrarian Workers' Federation and said: "You're a Fascist and I'm a Communist, but you must remember I used to do your lessons in school for you." This approach won him a series of comfortable civil service jobs in the Fascist administration, which he held till the party told him to become a Partisan. Today, at 37, he lives like a petty bourgeois in a one-room apartment, is interested in the film-producing business, loves Dante's Divine Comedy, especially Canto V ("Love led us down...
Many who come to Anapolis are on their way to the new Government Colonia Agricola Nacional and its embryonic town of Ceres. The Colonia, one of seven set up by Dictator Vargas in 1941, and the most successful, is an experiment in agrarian socialism. To poor men it holds out the promise of free land, home, security...