Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political history of the Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years. Professor Haring's lectures and the assigned reading, though it is uneven in merit...
...present period is one of experimental agrarian legislation and of widespread interest in agricultural conditions, Professor Sorokin claims. The need for trained American sociologists with a broad acquaintance with rural conditions has been urgent, he said. The new book explains how older nations and races have long struggled to understand the human factor in agriculture, and how America's short experience will benefit from the experience of older nations...
Into Brooklyn's noisy harbor last week sailed the Gdynia Amerika steamer Polonia, first passenger vessel ever to cross the Atlantic under the Polish Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could...
...Hitherto we have been giving away lands right and left, the only result being the creation for the nation of a fearful compromise - fearful because the Agrarian bonds in their entirety are in the hands of American bankers. What is graver is that they have reached their hands at the ridiculous price of 14? per peso...
...Reichstag lobbies it was said that Dr. Hugenberg and the Big Business wing of his party had been forced to reverse overnight by the agrarian wing, made up of farmers and landed proprietors fanatically loyal to HINDENBURG. The victory of "Iron Cross" Brüning was thus purely a triumph for the President of the Republic...