Word: agrarian
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...forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning shadows...
...Mexican who has been paid is Gabino Vazquez, chief of the Federal Agrarian Department For his expropriated farm and 50 cows in suburban Atzcapozalco, President Cardenas let him have 100,000 gold pesos...
President Cárdenas crooked his finger at the local head of the Agrarian Commission, ordered him to have the burned houses of the peons rebuilt at once, to supply them with farming tools, guns and ammunition...
...Year Plan. "Land to the Peasants" was one slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was also the main point of the present Mexican Constitution and of the Mexican Agrarian Law adopted in the same year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were...
...months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which...