Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First major expenditure would be $3,500,000 for buying large haciendas for resale to impoverished tenants. For those who were surprised that, in view of the Philippines' recent acute agrarian troubles, no more was earmarked for this purpose, President Quezon had a ready answer: if he promised to buy estates wherever agrarian trouble started, landowners who were eager to sell out would foment trouble to encourage sales...
...Communications & Public Works, and Toledano have been hurling charges of "Fascist" against 240-lb. Cedillo. Backed in his home state of San Luis Potosi by 7,000 men, the last private army in Mexico and apparently in high favor with President Cárdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused to accept it. Recently they sat down to breakfast...
...rift widened, Cedillo, who had risen from a bandit leader in the days of Pancho Villa to absolute boss of San Luis Potosi State, owner of a huge estate and palatial Las Palomas, stubbornly opposed the agrarian socialism of Cardenas. Landowner Cedillo favored small, privately-owned individual farms, objected to the communal ejidos set up by Cardenas...
Cheering peons, in their dirty overalls, folded serapes over their shoulders, sailed their huge white sombreros into the air last week in Merida as President Lazaro Cárdenas, taking another step in the Agrarian reforms under his Six-Year Plan, announced he would break up Yucatán's great henequen* estates, giving the land to the peasants...
...days later, Cabino Vásquez, head of the Agrarian Department, arrived in the Yucatan peninsula with brigades of surveyors, engineers and technical assistants, ready to split the expropriated estates into small farms and ejidos, communal allotments...