Word: agrarianism
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...next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME, Aug. 8). Stiffer entrance requirements were designed to keep it from competing with the vocational State College in the Eastern part of Washington. This pleased opponents of mass-education; it pleased agrarian East Washington. But taxpaying Western parents, who found their children unable to get into the University, resented having to send them East...
...Russia. "Soviets on Parade" opens with a ten minute review of industrial and agricultural Russia. It is interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant serfdom must have been for the Russians compared with this new system. Yet, in observing the expressions on these laborers' faces, one is led to believe they are perfectly happy...
...Agrarian Conditions in France, 1600-1840," Professor Usher, Sever...
Still Spain's "richest man," if he could escape confiscation by the Republic of his fantastically huge estates, was hawk-nosed old Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones last week. Solemnly, fervently he declared to the Agrarian Reform Council: "Never, in all the years that I served King Alfonso [several times as Premier] did I ever avail myself of my privilege, as a Grandee of Spain, to remain covered in His Majesty's presence at Court...
...Republic former Grandees who eschewed the super-aristocratic privilege of keeping their hats on at Court are considered to have shown themselves sufficiently Democratic under the Monarchy to escape confiscation of their lands today. Last week Under-Secretary Jose Benavas of the Agrarian Reform Council hotly gave the lie to Count de Romanones. "I have learned," he cried, "that this Grandee kept his hat on in the King's presence at least once...