Word: agrarian
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...existing form of government, with strong, capable leaders. In France today, there are two parties which are opposed to the continuance of the Republic, the Communists and the Royalists. Of those two the Communists may be dismissed, for they have no leaders and their programme would be anathema to agrarian France. There remains, then, only the Royalists, who have a strong, well organized party and capable though not outstanding leaders. There is, however, one man who might provide the Royalists with the firm direction which they need so badly and without which they will be unable to take advantage...
...President's policy is definitely limited; he can not reduce the content of the dollar below fifty cents, nor does he so desire. No one denies that we dare not go back to the conditions of the last fifty years of capitalism, to the business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods of handling the economic condition of our country, and we must adopt a new monetary system. But we must not be carried into unlimited inflation, and other unsafe or quack methods, by thoughtless excitement. The 'New Deal' offers...
Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...
...year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works...
...decide who is to be a privileged "peasant" and who a mere "farmer," the new decree sets up a vast Nazi bureau topped by an imposing Agrarian Supreme Court. Members of the new peasantry cannot be dispossessed for debt. Neither can their crops or goods of any sort be seized by private creditors. In the words of Chancellor Hitler's decree, "the peasantry are lifted out of the capitalist system...