Word: agrarian
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...Agrarian Reformers. Since then, the Reds have so wormed their way into the secondary ranks of government, and so identified themselves with the regime's revolutionary ideals, that anti-Communism is now officially regarded as subversive. Arbenz let the Reds form their own political party, in violation of the constitution, and took them into his government coalition; four Communists have been elected to Congress on the official ticket, and the anti-Communist opposition now holds only five of the 64 congressional seats. The President has given the Reds patronage and subsidies for their two newspapers. They run the government...
Keeping faith with its stockholders, the company announced that it would appeal to the Guatemalan supreme court, challenging a provision of the agrarian law which bars court appeals from land-reform decisions. The last four supreme-court justices who ruled in favor of a landholder were thrown out and replaced by stooges of the Red-tinged government; thus the company appeal seems doomed. United Fruit may then peg its hopes on a statement of principle enunciated by Cordell Hull after Mexico expropriated U.S. oil companies in 1938. Secretary of State Hull conceded that a government had the right to expropriate...
...used floor rugs as blankets and toilets as wash basins. At a hospital, Liu found the comrade "nurses" ripping the labels off the medicines and reclassifying the bottles according to four sizes and five colors. As for such high-reform," sounding most old government comrades projects as treated them "agrarian as rackets. When a mock trial with agitator witnesses led to a landlord's being beaten to death or shot, the party members div vied the land and farm implements among his neighbors, but picked up any gold or silver, clothing or household goods for themselves...
...their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
...only other sizable chunk of Littauer's student "body" is the group in the agricultural extension program of John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and dean of American agrarian economists. Over the past five years, this program has tried to bring a little bit of Harvard influence into many of the six million farm homes in the United States. Picked from state agricultural extension agencies and financed by the Carnegie Corporation, Black's 25 or more students do intensive work in their special farm field, and also dip into the more advanced theory of agricultural economies. These academic...