Word: agrarian
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With the zeal for reform which prompted his organization of an antidrinking league as a youth, he kept tackling problems of parliamentary and agrarian inequalities. By 1922 he had pushed through the Lex Kallio, forcing Finland's big landowners to sell property to small farmers at pre-war prices, built a substantial enfranchised middle class by turning tenants into owners. To consolidate Finland's gains he worked hard for Pan-Scandinavianism and national defense, though the odds against him proved overpowering...
...speaker pointed out that democracy has existed hand-in-hand with almost all economic systems from the rural and agrarian to the urban and industrial. "The democratic state is not a by-product of capitalism inseparable from it," he contended...
Since the collapse of major democratic influence in the Balkans, Bulgaria's alternative star had become the Axis. If heart dictated Moscow, head dictated Rome-Berlin. Bulgaria's is an agrarian economy -more than 80% of the 6,000,000 population is dependent on agriculture, compared with 3½% in all industries. Hungry Germany takes a large majority of Bulgarian produce, and supplies Bulgaria with the finished goods she needs. Furthermore the Axis was eager to press on Bulgaria's behalf her revisionist claims-a corridor to the Aegean through Greece, part of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, bits...
Concentrating his efforts upon the acute agrarian problem, President Cardenas has speeded up the distribution of land from large estates among the peasants. "It seems to me," Sweezy remarked, "that the only hope of raising the standard of living is to continue the trend towards collectivized agriculture...
...means clear that Candidate Almazan was "resentfully repudiated," except by the political machine. Because the political machine of PRM, CTM and Agrarians declared for Avila Camacho does not mean that they went down the line for him. Many observers believe that a good part of the labor vote deserted Avila Camacho on election day. The Agrarian Party to which Reader Fishback refers is allied...