Word: agrarianism
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...Mexico City last week Catholics heard that the Pope might appoint Right Rev. Guillermo Tritschler, Bishop of San Luis Potosí, to succeed the late Indian-born Pascual Diaz as Primate and Archbishop of Mexico. Bishop Tritschler, born 58 years ago of German and Spanish ancestry, has shepherded the agrarian and silver-producing diocese of San Luis Potosí for five years. To patient Catholics in States where the Church is relentlessly persecuted, this appointment may well bring hope. San Luis Potosí is one of the few States where priests and nuns walk the streets in canonical garb unmolested...
...That the income of the German agrarian economy would be higher than in any preceding year in our peace time...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President...
...American democracy is to be preserved, the American people must know what is involved in democracy. They are too much inclined to identify democracy with political institutions. Historically this interpretation is inaccurate. The American people in the days of the frontier and simple agrarian life achieved a rough economic democracy long before they achieved political democracy...
...most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...