Word: agrarian
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...horse sense reveal that it would take a miracle to overcome the following? "Camacho's pre-election backing embraced . . . Cardenas and . . . the Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the CTM, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members." Also . . . the Agrarian party which boasts more than a million members and which also declared for Camacho. A little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote is under 2,500,000. If the election had been "properly democratic" and without...
...clear that what remained of France had resigned itself to becoming an agrarian State. With few industries, only two great cities (Marseille and Lyon), a population consisting mainly of peasant landowners, the France that curves about the Mediterranean had no other choice. Its chief products are poultry and cheese, wine and tobacco, truffles, pâté de foie gras. The silk industry has its own cocoons in southern Cévennes. There are tall pine forests along the Atlantic coast. Most of Petain's decrees last week dealt with family life and rural homesteads. One law provided that...
...slick big-time firm Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy. And he was still more so when he volunteered his services to the New Deal "for the duration" (his words to Felix Frankfurter) in early 1933. By that fall, as counsel to AAA, he had led the revolt of consumer-minded, non-agrarian New Dealers that ousted George Peek. Less than two years later he was himself ousted in a similar revolt against the more durable Chester Davis. Rex Tugwell, his friend and sponsor, quickly got him placed in RFC. Thence he moved to PWA, for which he won the Alabama Power case...
...Ferdinand the Loyal." He was a Hohenzollern from Germany. But he made the decision (it was not forced upon him) to enter the first World War against his own kinsmen in defense of his adopted country. This was not weakness. His statesmanship gave to Rumania universal suffrage and agrarian reform. As a result of the latter measure the peasants-85 per cent of Rumania's population-today own the greater part of the arable land which formerly belonged to the privileged few. These reforms were not weakness...
...agrarian reform enacted under the reign of King Ferdinand was supplemented under King Carol II by another measure calculated to consolidate the economic independence of the new landowners. Through the conversion of agricultural debts, the peasants' indebtedness was reduced by more than half, which saved thousands of small holdings from foreclosure and many rural families from ruin...