Word: landless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Korea a large, stable class of small farm owners, plus a business class that it now lacks. During Japan's rule almost all Korean industry and large areas of choice farmland became Japanese-owned. Farm families are 70% of the population, and three-fourths of them were landless tenants. Under the proposed law on which the Assembly is now working, no person may own more than 7½ acres...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
...carried out in the Pontine Marshes) as a sensible way to more productivity and less agrarian discontent. With U.S. prodding and financial help, three districts are being reclaimed; eventually they will account for one-third of the nation's arable land, provide cheap plots for the landless...
...College, stated that it would be from ten days to two weeks before the multiple room changes could be made. Men eligible for the Houses will be moved from the Yard and the outside dormitories such as Claverly. Their vacated rooms will be turned over to the landless students...
Last week Gonzÿlez went a step farther by making his first public criticism of the Communists. The occasion was his veto of the reactionary Farm Bill (TIME, March 10) which would have virtually banned union organization of the landless campesinos. The Communists wanted a veto, but they wanted a louder one than the President gave. Gonzÿlez told a protesting Communist delegation: "I am in profound disagreement with the Communists. . . . The Communists cannot separate me from the people...