Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOSTON HERALD: THERE are many indications that the big factor in the vote was not Democratic bossism or Republican indifference but agrarian discontent. Senator Kefauver outbid Mr. Stevenson on the issue dearest to the rural voter, farm aid. The Republicans would do well to pay more attention to farm sentiment and putting across their essentially constructive farm policies...
Died. Louis Bromfield, 59, famed, Ohio-born Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist (for Early Autumn in 1926), jack-of-all-literary-trades, and politically conservative agrarian reformer (Malabar Farm); of complications following a jaundice virus infection; in Columbus, Ohio...
...Tammany Hall's Boss De Sapio. All are of the same ilk and bilk. When Truman complains, "We have lost heavily among the millions of uncommitted people in Asia," he seems to have forgotten under whose administration it was that the Chinese Commies were called "merely agrarian reformers." There are thousands of American casualties of Korea who weren't nearly so happy on "Harry's Night...
...corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast to the Arbenz regime's land reform decree, which retained a lien on government-issued land (to keep beneficiaries voting the right way), the new law gives outright possession. To prevent estate owners...
Lawyer Kekkonen, city-bred boss of Finland's Agrarian Party, squeaked in for his six-year term after the most protracted balloting in the republic's 38-year history. His final 151-149 victory came only after the Communists threw him their 56 votes. Though all Finns agree that they have to stay on good terms with their powerful neighbors, Kekkonen's frank campaign for a be-sweet-to-the-Russians policy galled the stubbornly independent souls of many Finns. Kekkonen maintained that a policy of appeasement won Porkkala back, and might yet persuade the Russians...