Word: agrarian
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...sovereignty. It governs an agricultural nation of industrial resources, inhabited by an uneducated and half-breed population. To its credit it has international recognition and several years of warless existence. Its task is to solve severe problems dealing with stability, national unity, racial peace, popular education and, not loast, agrarian comfort and natural resources...
...agrarian dissatisfaction has recently forced it to the front, reopening the issue with something of the former bitterness. The high tariff was belabored last week at a tariff conference called by the Farmers' National Council in Washington, at a joint meeting of the American Economic Association and the American Farm Economic Association in Manhattan and at a meeting of the People's Reconstruction League in the Capital...
...price fixing at Government cost (they are the radicals) and 2) those who wish the price fixing at the cost of the farmers themselves (the moderates). In this latter group it appears that Frank O. Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, who has become a leader of the agrarian interests, is to be included?possibly also Vice President Dawes. Between these two parties a distinct line has not yet been drawn, and a great many politicians would like to belong to both parties at once...
...bodice may beat for the professor's learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...
...Lloyd George as he read the comment on his speech, "to be taken seriously," "a new, vitalizing and challenging idea," perhaps he dreamed a little of homing, coming to the Government bench in the House?until his eye ran on "obsolete policy." "raises the spectre of agrarian strife," "a mere bundle of details...