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Show 198 by President sounded twin was based the entire nation being the on sion s agrar and politically. r-e To study the rural A.meri commenda+Lons for its improve President Roosevelt created and staffed the COITis Country Life. on cor.nnission were had ec.rned their men of Each of the some prominence, of them Kost sofar capable the as term is Commission The seven on of were of the members and most of them with farmers reputations by Vlorking farming techniques. in and, easterners definition, or Progressives. Country Life based its study thirty public he2Iings some linked to the well inextricably situation arid f'r-ane ment, of well-being badly disadv2l1taged socially, culturally, was economically, call The its agr-ar-i an sector and that the nation' of ian sector can that the assumptions was in 1908. Roosevelt Theodore and on on completed questionnaires distributed to 120,000 farm families throughout the nation. Its report, firmed his transmitted to Roosevelt in Janu2rY, supposition th2.t the Aner-Lcan f'armer's receiving their just due. tions the proposed cornmission and the specific goals many private and was ensure the orgru1ized interests. for a the sweep ing a and necessity f'arrner-s of progl'"'2 1TI .. a of not sugges involving of Receiving governmental action protection against at con wide r-ange agencies. Toward that end it government policy aimed wer-e advancing remedial resources public individuals special emphasis which would In 1909, the called in secur-Ing owner-snap part of |
