Word: agrarian
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...Communist nightmares. He feared that Finland might turn Red any day. The best he could do was to force young Finland to destroy all the great Russian forts on the Aland Islands. Thus, the Alands were no help to him but neither were they a menace. Since then, however, agrarian Finland has proved its right to Gustaf's confidence by showing itself thoroughly antiCommunist. Finland was no threat last week but what of emboldened Soviet Russia? The form Gustaf's fear took was that Russia may some day seize the unfortified Aland Islands, thus irreparably separating Sweden...
...Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which had to be tempered in blood before it was proved indissoluble. Historian Adams shows convincingly the inevitable drawing apart of agrarian South from industrial North, an incompatibility be coming more & more coherent. Just before the Civil War Northerners were speaking hotly of South Carolina as "that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon...
Political hormones seem to be flowing freely this spring, and the results are almost as startling in the corpus politicus as in the corpus biologicus. One notes that Bulgaria is attempting the noble experiment of fascism. Under the tender ministrations of Tsankoff, whose government in 1923 executed Stambolisky, the Agrarian dictator, the king's conscience has been stirred. Abandoning the neutrality which he has maintained for many years, Boris has consented to dissolve parliament and replace the present cabinet with an "authoritarian" government. Successful declaration of martial law has been followed by the usual arrests of Socialist and Communist leaders...
...result of the military defeat, King Fordinand was forced to abdiento, since the alliance with the Central Powers had been principally his undertaking. Under his son and successor, Boris, the Agrarian party rose to power. By 1920, Stambolisky succeeded in establishing a virtual dictatorship in his party, and in the next three years managed to alienate a number of important groups in the state. Since he was chiefly interested in the peasant proprietors, he became increasingly intolerant and oppressive of other classes...
...backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed there until the furlong pole. After turning for home, Jockey Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed out to the world. His time for the 1¼ mi. was 2104 flat, no derby record. He was the second English-bred horse to win the race, having...