Word: greenbackers
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...most notable was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that Hubert Humphrey helped nail together in 1944 just before he became mayor of Minneapolis. The Farmer-Labor Party was radical in its origins, with mostly rural, Scandinavian Protestant members and roots in the antimonopolist, Greenback and Populist movements. The Democrats were mostly urban and more conservative, with strong Irish, German and Catholic elements. Within a decade of the merger, the D.F.L. emerged as the dominant force in Minnesota politics, breeding a remarkable collection of national figures like Humphrey, Orville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy and Walter ("Fritz") Mondale...
...DOLLAR: Foreign moneymen remained skeptical that Nixon's latest economic initiatives will be enough to revive the ailing dollar soon. As a result, the international exchange rate of the greenback continued to drift lower against most currencies, falling to 2.54 in German marks and 4.22 in French francs...
...dollar. Within two days after bullion markets opened, the price of gold shot from about $96 per oz. to about $109 in Zurich, $110 in London and an astonishing $124 in Paris. The rise was accompanied by a decline in the price of the dollar. For example, the greenback dropped about 2? against the British pound, which rose...
Amexco's enormous holdings of all kinds of currencies amply insulate it against any monetary crisis. Executives at Lower Manhattan headquarters will not say how many dollars they unloaded just before the greenback's most recent fall, but money men believe that the company came through the ordeal with a tidy trading profit. More important, Amexco officers saw the succession of crises as an opportunity. They heavily advertised their 250 overseas offices (which handily outnumber the 127 U.S. embassies around the world) as a haven where tourists could count on turning unlimited amounts of dollar travelers checks into...
There is a fairly promising plot notion here, a little like one of Thomas Pynchon's wonderland allegories. A motley but not unlikable crew of misfits chases around rural California in quest of a greenback grail: $312,000 in cash embezzled from a talent agency years earlier. James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser barrel over the back roads towing an Airstream Land Yacht, pursued by two absurdly sinister motor homes painted deadly black and piloted by unseen, relentless drivers...