Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigidly controlled system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with Nazi conceptions of national welfare. Capital surpluses went into armaments; the Nazis ceased to build houses. The peasant was bound to his land by laws prohibiting the sale or mortgaging of hereditary homesteads, and farm production was indirectly managed through price-fixing boards. The great drive of Wehrwirtschaft, or war economy...
...suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating for it, Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only way to wring concessions from the Serb Government. Such hints reminded the Yugoslav Government all too vividly of the actions last March of the Slovaks, who finally appealed...
Italians pay allegiance to II Duce, II Papa, II Re. It is no secret, even in censor-ridden Italy, that the agnostic peasant's son who commands the lion's share of the allegiance is quietly deplored by Pope and King. Last week that division in sentiment passed a crisis which has long been building...
...half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from the authorities to use his patronymic (which he transmuted to Hitler...
Christ in Concrete, autobiographical but imaginative, is a passionate, humorous, pathetic story of peasant Italians in the U. S., at work, in tenements, in animal anguish and animal high spirits. Author di Donato's Italians speak a translated Italian, lyrical, bawdy, tender, crude...