Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito Mussolini. Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria Over All" coalition of the Christian Socialists, the Fascist Heimwehr and the Agrarian League with the half-hearted support of the Socialists. Last week Dollfuss met long & late with his Cabinet to make a choice. Within the Cabinet Vice-Chancellor Franz
...called.'' But Commissioner Grau San Martin (pronounced "Grou Sahn Marteen") explained quietly that, before an election could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo roared to the crowd, "For the first time in history the Cuban people will rule their own destinies...
...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...