Word: populist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Economy, called at the Palazzo Chigi, where the Premier resides. Ill health obliged him to resign and he hoped that the Premier would at once release him. The Premier, no doubt with a muffled sigh of relief, accepted the resignation; for it was known that Signor Nava, a Populist or member of the Catholic Party, was not entirely welcome or at ease in an otherwise all-Fascist Cabinet. Within a day, Premier Mussolini appointed Count Giuseppe Volpi Minister of Finance and Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet all-Fascist. The only member...
...hand but was not welcome. So was William Mahoney, who organized the St. Paul Convention and was a member of the National Committee of the C. P. P. A. So was Jacob Coxey, known in 1894 as leader of Coxey's Army, claiming to be a representative of the Populist Party. As much as possible, these people were ruled out. No one wants less to be confounded with reds than do the pinks...
...published his memoirs.* Expressed in simplest terms and in Mr. Pettigrew's own phrase, the volume aims to suggest that "politicians serve the business interests first and the public afterwards." (Mr. Pettigrew is ostensibly Socialist-though he started Republican and in 1896 became Populist-Democrat...
...state of affairs in which the American people find themselves, but it is an inevitable state of affairs in view of the political practices which they have tolerated during the last twenty years. They allowed Mr. Bryan to club every Democrat into submission who was not at heart a Populist, and they allowed Mr. Roosevelt to put the Wall Street brand on every Republican who would not meekly indorse "My Policies." The result of it is that the blood of both of the political parties has been impoverished, and in the course of the contests between the right wings...