Word: agrarianism
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Meanwhile, across the Rio Grande at Juarez the Mexican Confederation of Labor was holding its sixth annual Convention. That afternoon, the Mexican delegates, 1,000 strong, marched across the international bridge into El Paso. There came agrarian delegates, sandaled, in white cotton suits, with pink and orange scarfs and straw sombreros; there came industrial delegates in overalls ; there came white-collared workers in white collars; there came women workers in orange and white blouses with black shawls. Straight to Liberty Hall marched the Mexicans and entered amid cheers. The leaders of the parade, one of them carrying a Mexican flag...
Several facts, however, are plain. The Reserve system is today the richest and most powerful central banking institution in the world; it has replaced even the historic Bank of England as the centre of the world's money market. It has furthermore apparently survived an agrarian political attack which a century ago wrecked both the First and Second U.S. Banks...
...Enemies are trying to use this case in order to damage the prestige of the Government. They have tried to incline the national conscience against the Agrarian Party, because this political and social party is the one most identified with the present Government. . . . Fortunately, the truth, with an eloquence superior to intrigue and perversity, has demonstrated to all the world that Mrs. Evans was killed by three miserable criminals without any other reason than to rob her of the money which she carried and that justice will soon pronounce sentence...
Herr Gustav Rösiche, President of the National Agrarian League and a leading reactionary member of the Reichstag, went on a visit to the ex-Crown Prince at Oels. He was to have delivered a report on German agrarian sentiment to His (ex) Royal Highness, but he was rendered unconscious by an apoplectic stroke from which he died...
...annihilation of the Communists was due to the opposition of agrarian Austria and to the growing prosperity of Vienna. This is unimportant, because Communism has for a long time fought a losing fight. The end, or what appears to be the end, was therefore anticipated...