Word: agrarianism
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...meeting, said Budenz, "Field commended Mr. Lattimore's zeal in seeing that Communists were placed as writers in Pacific Affairs ... It was agreed that Mr. Lattimore should be given general direction of organizing the writers and influencing the writers in representing the Chinese Communists as agrarian reformers...
Lattimore himself, in a press conference next day, insisted that in his eleven books and hundreds of articles there was not "a single instance" where he had referred to the Chinese Communists as "agrarian reformers," the political euphemism used in the Communist Party line. Said Lattimore: "But I suppose that to [Budenz] every anti-Communist statement that I made was either for the purpose of covering my true affiliation or was by what he calls special dispensation...
...starts out by describing the early lack of interest in penetrating the continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route to the Pacific...
...contains Smith's evaluation of Frederick Jackson Turner's hypothesis that the frontier, the point where civilization meets savagery, is the vital force in American history. Smith declares that the argarian emphasis of the theory, "has tended to divert attention from the problems created by industrialization." He attacks the agrarian tradition of Turner because it has focussed all attention on the agricultural interior of the continent and prevented recognition of the vital relationship of America to the world community. These assertions are carefully reasoned and supported by prodigious research. Although they do not knock the props from beneath the classic...
...effects of this $5 billion combination of industrial and agrarian prosperity has inspired a giant construction industry: Texas cities have not only acquired new factories, but the high, clean shafts of new office buildings, bright-roofed acres of housing for the new industrial workers, and tree-shaded mansions for the new millionaires. Dallas has a Rolls-Royce agency; its fashionable Neiman-Marcus sells more mink than any store outside New York. There is fresh paint on farmhouses and new tractors grumble across the endless Texas land...