Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political hormones seem to be flowing freely this spring, and the results are almost as startling in the corpus politicus as in the corpus biologicus. One notes that Bulgaria is attempting the noble experiment of fascism. Under the tender ministrations of Tsankoff, whose government in 1923 executed Stambolisky, the Agrarian dictator, the king's conscience has been stirred. Abandoning the neutrality which he has maintained for many years, Boris has consented to dissolve parliament and replace the present cabinet with an "authoritarian" government. Successful declaration of martial law has been followed by the usual arrests of Socialist and Communist leaders...
...backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed there until the furlong pole. After turning for home, Jockey Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed out to the world. His time for the 1¼ mi. was 2104 flat, no derby record. He was the second English-bred horse to win the race, having...
Same day at Havre de Grace, in the Chesapeake Stakes ($7,500 added), speedy Cavalcade clipped 2/5 sec. off the track record, won handily from Mrs. Frank J. Heller's Agrarian and Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery...
...position of interpreter between a hostile East and West, speaking different economic language. It will be his impossible job to prove to the East that the West has the best interests of the Country at heart, and explain to the West that the Yankees are not opposed to reasonable agrarian reform. For the present, however, criticism from one section will be answered from another. The national policies can best be attacked by bodies of national representation...
Since the death of Jacksonian democracy the agrarian interests of the country have labored under the constant domination of the industrial and have swayed from one party to the other in a vain attempt to find a permanent resting place. The political subjugation of agriculture has been fully reflected by every administration since the Civil War. All efforts have been directed toward the encouragement of industry. The periodic uprisings of the farmers have been staved off by temporary palliatives. This policy has failed dismally since the World War, and the present situation of the farmer is the most serious problem...