Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credits, or home loan or farm loan or public works. . . . The AAA had to deal not with industry which operates all year, but with agriculture which operates on seasonal crops. It did not have authority in time to do all it intends for this year's crops. . . . Farm revolt may be useful, but it is no part of wisdom to revolt against our friends. . . . What did you ever get from these gentlemen who are now inciting you against the President's program? I'll tell you what you got. . . . You got destitution and the road to ruin...
...Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
...farm revolt in the West is, of course, the underlying cause of uneasiness. There is a bitterness here against the agitators who would take advantage of the troublesome situation to foment strife. But it is apparent that the patience of farm groups is at the breaking point and that the administration is not going to have a chance to continue its experimental economics indefinitely...
...Congress gets here there will be definite steps taken to relieve distress and to subsidize groups. Already the government is speeding up its machinery of loans in the hope that advances to be made on commodities will send the price level up. It was a forewarning of this western revolt which caused the President to decide suddenly to embark upon the gold buying policy which for months had been advocated by Professor Warren...
There is one salient fact which stands out of all that is being reported and written of the middlewestern farm revolt; some farmers are willing to sell at the current price level, and are being restrained from doing so only by the most inflammatory and militant devisements of their fellows. The gospel preached by the pay leaders of the movement, I am aware, is in direct opposition to this. Their argument runs that the NRA is intolerable, because it is running agriculture into the ground and making it impossible for any farmer to retain his solvency, but if this were...