Word: agrarian
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...agrarian revolt is the last thing President-elect Roosevelt wants on his hands during his first year in the White House. He and his Democratic associates have been cudgeling their brains to devise ways & means of heading off such an uprising before it reaches the blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil...
...free to ballot in either party and their presidential preferences in no wise bind convention delegates elected separately but simultaneously. Governor Murray, campaigning excitedly as an apostle of discontent, had purposely picked North Dakota for the first test of his political strength outside Oklahoma. He confidently expected to turn agrarian radicalism to his own benefit. Yet Governor Roosevelt not only swept the preference voting but won nine of the State's ten Democratic convention delegates. The only delegate Governor Murray got to add to his 22 from Oklahoma was his brother George, who farms at Berthold...
...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...
...political history of the Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years. Professor Haring's lectures and the assigned reading, though it is uneven in merit...
...present period is one of experimental agrarian legislation and of widespread interest in agricultural conditions, Professor Sorokin claims. The need for trained American sociologists with a broad acquaintance with rural conditions has been urgent, he said. The new book explains how older nations and races have long struggled to understand the human factor in agriculture, and how America's short experience will benefit from the experience of older nations...