What is "granger"

Usage examples of "granger".

As for your offer of Danegeld, one of my travel-mates was a Granger nobleman, something of a distant cousin.

It was not until the panic of 1873 had intensified the agricultural depression and the Granger movement had failed to relieve the situation that the farmers of the West took hold of greenbackism and made it a major political issue.

Ivonne later that evening that Granger had been a wealthy tobacco farmer in Virginia, but his family had protested his will, which left everything to Evangeline, and the estate had been settled in favor of his brother.

The fact that she was a low-class, deceitful Irishwoman caused Granger only minor worry.

I was away, Murdan was off to Spring Session, and Princess Manda was at Overhall, having run away from Granger of Momingside.

Granger datachats indicate widespread willingness to start over elsewhere, but a planetary plebescite of six million votes altered the constitution two years ago, placing a moritorium on new terraforming anywhere on Jefferson.

The buttons I cut from the old shirtwaist I wore when I ran away from Granger!

THE GRANGER MOVEMENT AT FLOOD TIDE With these real or fancied grievances crying for redress, the farmers soon turned to the Grange as the weapon ready at hand to combat the forces which they believed were conspiring to crush them.

It is difficult to account for the fact that so few of the farmers during the Granger period played prominent parts in later phases of the agrarian crusade.

Not until he was convinced that he might at least trust the Grangers did he lay aside his suspicions and join with other farmers in the attempt to obtain what they considered just railroad legislation.

Of all the causes of the rapid collapse of the Granger movement, the unfortunate experience which the farmers had in their attempts at business cooperation was probably chief.

Granger movement was spent, orders of farmers began to appear in various places and to spread rapidly throughout the South and West.

When the Grangers began to speak of their function in terms of business and political cooperation, the forces against which they were uniting took alarm.

Certain it is, moreover, that the Grangers made use of the popular hostility to the railroads in securing membership for the order.

The senators found themselves hoist with their own petard, however, for the lower house, made up largely of Grangers, accepted this bill rather than let the matter of railroad legislation go by default.