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Hard pressed for ammunition in the campaign, his political enemies spread scandalous lies that his kinky hair and heavy features were signs of Negro blood, that the 350-acre farm to which he frequently retires with his vivacious, red-headed wife, is only a device to gain agrarian support. He drives an Auburn, golfs in the 90's, goes duck-hunting. Impressed by his vigorous campaign and easy victory, Presidential supporters of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon promptly boomed Nominee Brooks for keynoter at the Republican National Convention...
FISH ON THE STEEPLE-Ed Bell- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). In late years attentive observers have noted two contrasting literary movements developing in such centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow...
...peasants too have begun to disapprove of Japan's policy with respect to China," continued Proletarian Kato. "At first the Japanese peasantry were under the influence of Japanese nationalistic propaganda. However, as a result of the acute agrarian crisis of 1931-32 and the ensuing famine in the northeastern parts of Japan, the peasants have recently grown more rebellious and the number of farmer uprisings has been increasing...
There were general parliamentary elections throughout Czechoslovakia last week, and to the acute distaste of most of Prague, Führer Henlein's party topped every other in the country with 1,294,000 votes against the Agrarian's second highest: 1,176,000. Because of the country's voting system, the Czech Agrarian party still will have the largest number of seats in parliament. Prague observers found democracy in Czechoslovakia still in no immediate danger, but it was a close call, demanded immediate rebuilding of political fences...
Long-suffering Andrew Cairns, resident secretary in London of the International Wheat Advisory Commission created by the World Wheat Conference of 21 agrarian nations including the U. S. (TIME, July 3 et. seq.), sent out invitations last week for a super-gloomy meeting...