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"ref": "1991, Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, page 222",
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"ref": "2004, Keith M. Brown, Noble Society in Scotland, page 25",
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"ref": "2006, J. S. Hamilton, Fourteenth Century England - Volume 4, page 175",
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"ref": "1992, Axel Hadenius, Democracy and Development, page 99",
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"ref": "2015, Arthur Morius Francis, Secret Societies Vol. 3: The Collegiate Secret Societies of America",
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"ref": "2015, Julie Tibbott, Members Only: Secret Societies, Sects, and Cults Exposed!, page 160",
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"ref": "1977, Franz Pick, Pick's Currency Yearbook, page 285",
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"ref": "2015, Arthur Morius Francis, Secret Societies Vol. 3: The Collegiate Secret Societies of America",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Franz Pick, Pick's Currency Yearbook, page 285",
"text": "But delaying the \"reform\" was the cattle farmers' lobby and other landed societies, which were actively vying to counter the so-called \"Communist\" influence of the National Peasant Union, a powerful lobby challenging the status quo.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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