Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impoverished Vienna and a hinterland mainly devoted to agriculture, quite insufficient to support the economic needs of its metropolis. The Socialist party has held Vienna in the palm of its hand since the war, while the national government has been dominated by the small land-owners, peasants, and the agrarian capitalist aristocracy...
Whereas the Nazi fascism in Germany was built up around the industrial capitalism to keep the reins of power out of the proletariat's hands and the proletariat out of socialism, socialism taxed the individual capitalist out of existence in Vienna. Dollfuss, it seems, wishes to preserve agrarian capitalism without the opposition of Viennese socialists. The Austrian agrarian proletariat, the peasants, found the Maxist doctrine incomprehensible and impractical, and their overlords, the landed aristocracy, found it distinctly undesirable. From them Dollfuss has drawn his party, and since he has the benefit of the national army and the majority...
...existing form of government, with strong, capable leaders. In France today, there are two parties which are opposed to the continuance of the Republic, the Communists and the Royalists. Of those two the Communists may be dismissed, for they have no leaders and their programme would be anathema to agrarian France. There remains, then, only the Royalists, who have a strong, well organized party and capable though not outstanding leaders. There is, however, one man who might provide the Royalists with the firm direction which they need so badly and without which they will be unable to take advantage...
...President's policy is definitely limited; he can not reduce the content of the dollar below fifty cents, nor does he so desire. No one denies that we dare not go back to the conditions of the last fifty years of capitalism, to the business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods of handling the economic condition of our country, and we must adopt a new monetary system. But we must not be carried into unlimited inflation, and other unsafe or quack methods, by thoughtless excitement. The 'New Deal' offers...
...year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works...