Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Now a court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160...
Andrus may get even more than he expects. Two weeks ago, hundreds of California farmers ringed the San Diego convention center, where the state Republican Party was holding its annual meeting, waving placards that read FAIRNESS FOR FARMERS and SAVE THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. As more than 50 huge tractors churned...
The Western farmers' main complaint: the 1902 act is archaic because modern mechanized farming techniques have made it impossible for anyone to earn a living on a 160-acre tract. Moreover, Imperial Valley landowners point out, of the 450,000 Imperial acres under the plow, only 20,000 belong...
One of those farms belongs to Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Robert Meyer, whose family owns or leases 2,100 Imperial Valley acres. Like his neighbors, Meyer believed the valley was exempt from the 1902 law because local farmers had built their own 50-mile Alamo Canal to irrigate their fields...
With a success greater than any Backhouse could claim in the Imperial court, Trevor-Roper penetrates the mystery of the self-styled Hermit of Peking. But what is so fascinating about this book, what makes it so immensely readable, is not merely the catalogue of Backhouse's many frauds, of...