Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...bite off 170 more square miles of Leftist territory, and Leftists in turn nibbled away three square miles from the Right. The Left advance was in the vague, poorly held line northwest of Cordoba in the south, while the Rightist bite, close to the Pyrenees near Jaca, included a rich plum, the strategically important San Pedro Hill, one of the key points in the long delayed, highly advertised Rightist offensive on the Aragon front that was to end the war before winter...
Every Mexican President since 1910 has claimed that he was taking land from the rich and "returning" it to the poor. But last week President Cardenas accurately claimed that he has split up more land than all the Presidents of the past 15 years. Some 24,000,000 acres have been divided among Indian, mestizo farmers by President Cardenas since 1934 while only 20,000,000 acres were distributed in the 15 years preceding...
...LIFE for Oct. 18, I find the following statement: "For the classical learning which has made him a sonorous orator and suave companion of the rich and great, the boss of C. I. O. can thank the course of reading laid out for him by the Iowa school-teacher whom he married...
...Sciences which, with a membership limited to 300, is the most exclusive national body of scientists in the U. S. The attendance at the Rochester meeting last week was scanty, only 37 scholars registering. Of 37 papers no less than 24 were delivered by faculty-men of the rich (Eastman-endowed) and prestige-hungry University of Rochester. Highlights...