Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such an approach was pure demagoguery. Iran's poverty was more the fault of an inefficient government and an oppressive landlord system than of any foreign influence. The British could be blamed, however, for having failed to do something about inefficiency and oppression. For its workers in the Khuzistan fields, Anglo-Iranian has built model dispensaries, schools and recreation grounds, but it has made no effort to integrate itself in the life of the country. In 1951, swimming pools and flush toilets for the oil workers make a poor substitute for a long-term policy...
...gaudy melodrama, written by six anonymous authors, of whom Mao may be one. It portrays the suffering of Heroine Hsi-erh, a landless farmer's daughter, who is tortured by the landlord's mother, raped by the landlord's son, etc., etc. Her ordeal turns her hair prematurely white. The Red army finally rescues her and punishes the wicked landlord family...
There are many signs of liberalism in the structure of the Korean government. When elected, Rhee offered a 27-point program guaranteeing economic and social democracy as well as political democracy. The Assembly passed a land-reform act which provided for the sale of 90% of all landlord-owned farms to their tenants, who were to pay 20% of their annual crop for 15 years Rhee's democratic program was spelled out in the Korean constitution, and the land-reform act is now law. But these reforms have not been carried out because of the war, Rhee claims...
...Michael Molloy; produced by Michael Grace) is about as Irish as plays come-even out of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre. It is a gaudily romantic period piece about a homely 18th Century shillelagh fighter who turns up in the west of Ireland just as a great landlord is about to seize a pretty young peasant girl for his pleasure. When the girl (Maggie McNamara) pretends love for the brawny shillelagh-swinging Dowd (Walter Macken), he cheerfully whips the landlord's entire press gang. But though Dowd eventually wins the girl's love, the landlord schemes...
Master: Psychiatrist and Landlord...