Word: chartist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHEN the Chartists marched on Parliament in 1839 to protest the plight of Britain's working class they did not, as some feared, batter down the doors. Instead, in a tactic they were to use twice more in the next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally...
Today, although well-oiled lobbying may be more effective and mass demonstrations more dramatic, the U.S. is witnessing a marked resurgence of petitions. With Chartist fervor, miles of signatures are collected each year on hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control...
...Boswell of the small investor is Garfield Albee Drew, a controversial Boston chartist. He tries to call turns in the stock market by keeping careful tab on the odd-lotter-generally the small investor who buys and sells in lots of less than 100 shares. Mustachioed "Jeff" Drew (5 ft. 6 in. and 57), has an unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when...
...religion of the stars is the stars' religion, and astrology in Hollywood is competing with the psychoanalyst's couch. "Psychiatrists trade on human anxiety," says one high-priced chartist of the skies...