Word: agrarianism
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...great deal of property of Americans has been taken under or in violation of the agrarian laws for which no compensation has been made, and other properties practically ruined and, in one instance, taken by the Mexican Government on account of unreasonable demands of labor. Mr. Sheffield will have the full support of this Government and we will insist that adequate protection under the recognized rules of international law be afforded American citizens...
Under a system of proportionate representation, M. Lauri Relander, Governor of Viipuri (Viborg), Agrarian, defeated his nearest rival, M. Ryti, Governor of the State Bank, Progressive, on the third ballot by 172 to 109 votes...
...second President of the Finnish Republic is a leading light in the Agrarian Party. His name was put forward at the last moment and his election was due to the almost solid vote of the Conservatives, which, in a country seething with Bolshevism only a few years ago, is a significant fact...
...arrested Senor Proal, Red agitator, warned other agitators; he had cut down the enormous number of holidays hitherto enjoyed by Mexican Federal officials; he had promised a 30% decrease in Government expenditure for the present year. The result of this policy was to win the wholehearted support of the Agrarians, who pledged themselves to back the Government's plan of distributing and controlling agrarian lands, of establishing agricultural schools. As an official close to the Government put it, "90% of the people are with the President, who has the good-will of capitalists and laborers alike...
Beneath a cloudless sky in the open-air National Stadium on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Executive Power of the United Mexican States passed from General Alvero Obregon to General Plutarco Elias Calles, peacefully elected by the Labor-Agrarian vote...