Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grapes, the village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow...
Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
Rightist columns by this time had completely surrounded Teruel. Rightists poured in explosives, made things hotter in the town than any place has been in Spain since the Siege of the Alcazar. The Peasant, leading Leftists in a furious effort to fight their way out, was reported killed in an armored truck. It was then bayonet against bayonet in what experts rated the most savage, large-scale battle of Spain's present civil...
...Beteta, Mexico's energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
...Monday last week a sandaled peasant woman wandered into an abandoned garage and found the body of an 8-year-old girl, Olga Comacho, daughter of a bartender. Her throat was slashed. She had been ravished while returning from the village meat market. Through all the flyspecked rabbit warrens of Tijuana the news spread and quickly more news followed: a soldier from the garrison had been caught with the package of meat Olga Comacho was bringing home...