Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only flaws in all this from the peons' standpoint are: 1) this kind of Government finance has been so hard on the peso that prices are rapidly rising, the cost of living soaring; 2) there are complaints that Government underlings, not imbued with Cárdenas' high ideals, are behaving like unscrupulous landlords in the U. S., keeping the books so that illiterate peons still stay in debt even after their crops are harvested; 3) in some cases peons incapable of farming without a landlord's direction, are raising smaller crops than ever before on the same...
...Stooge Cárdenas-and that was all people thought he was-to smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying...
...Infantry has 57,286 enlisted men, 3,568 officers in 36 skeleton regiments, two tank regiments. Blue-eyed, able Chief of Infantry George A. Lynch admits that the U. S. Infantry's organization is outmoded by foreign armies, tells his officers to think hard and fast. Meanwhile, the Infantry's equipment is excellent in type, deficient in quantity...
...city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting value to a 20th-Century community in the purchase of an Egyptian...
...with the 1890s. In 1932 only 180,000 bicycles were sold, about one-fifth the annual sale before 1900. Since then, however, bicycling has had an astonishing revival. Last year U. S. citizens bought more bicycles (1,300,000) than ever before. Last week New York's efficient, hard-working Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted...