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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reap on all his land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed a "collectivist farm," and thereafter worked by communized cultivators who may or may not include the former owner. Last week the Government announced that 3% of all peasant farms in Russia have been thus collectivized. Five million communized yokels now toil on 60,000 collective farms comprising what were once more than 1,000,000 peasant homesteads. In these "Grain Factories" snort Ford tractors...
Widows. The Ministry of Health (Parliamentary Secretary, Miss Lawrence) issued the text of an amendment to the Widows Pensions Act of 1925. If passed, the amendment will broaden the pension system to include an additional half-million widows. Complex, the measure teems with such provisos as that if a woman is between 55 and 70, and if her husband died before Jan. 1, 1926, then the lucky widow will receive ten shillings a week ($2.50) for the rest of her life...
...workers who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation of the inscription if it takes my last cent and my last breath...
...Social Institute at Budapest. Returning home in high excitement Dr. Rajniss declared that President Masaryk had outlined to him a series of remarkable proposals for settling the acute Hungarian minorities question which arose when Czechoslovakia received after the War some 14,000 square miles of territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants of other nationalities. The proposals verbally quoted by Dr. Rajniss rang true. They sounded like Masaryk, intelligent, magnanimous. Of course they did not envision yielding to the extreme Hungarian irredentist demand: "Czechoslovakia must give us back the whole 14,000 square miles...
...adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much as an average year's crop...