Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Peter Norbeck, 66, South Dakota's onetime (1917-21) Governor, long-time (since 1921) Senator; of heart disease complicated by cancerous tongue and jaw; in Redfield, S. Dak. Insurgent Republican agrarian, he early advocated the equalization fee and debenture plans for U. S. farm relief. He got Republican President Coolidge to spend his 1927 vacation in the Black Hills, in the 1936 campaign switched to Democratic President Roosevelt...
...original pledge," the diplomat continued, "was to transform a backward agrarian country into an advanced, industrial nation, completely capable of protecting its firmly established socialist economy. Today this is a reality...
...Mexico City last week Catholics heard that the Pope might appoint Right Rev. Guillermo Tritschler, Bishop of San Luis Potosí, to succeed the late Indian-born Pascual Diaz as Primate and Archbishop of Mexico. Bishop Tritschler, born 58 years ago of German and Spanish ancestry, has shepherded the agrarian and silver-producing diocese of San Luis Potosí for five years. To patient Catholics in States where the Church is relentlessly persecuted, this appointment may well bring hope. San Luis Potosí is one of the few States where priests and nuns walk the streets in canonical garb unmolested...
...That the income of the German agrarian economy would be higher than in any preceding year in our peace time...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President...