Word: greenbacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last and least little party: The National Greenback Party, which advocates going off the gold standard and electing John Zahnd, an amateur horticulturist of Indianapolis, as President of the U. S. For Vice President: James E. Yates, apostle in the Phoenix, Ariz. Church of Christ...
...give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined the Greenback Party, which advocates the withdrawal of all gold and silver certificates, substitution of paper money backed not by bullion but by "faith." She was listed in the The Honest Money Year Book of 1040. This year, when the party decided to put a Presidential candidate in the field, they tapped...
...Said Greenback Candidate Milburn: "The objective of science is being frustrated and defeated in its attainment by our present monetary policy." Said her brother, Charles M. Thomsen of Seattle: "It's a pretty deep subject. I'm a Republican myself." Down from Vancouver, B. C. flew George Milburn, her son, convinced that the time was not ripe for his mother and Greenbackery to sweep the U. S. On second thought last week, the only woman Presidential candidate quit...