Word: populist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning the farm situation, Mr. Bliven said, "The strikes amount to very little, the strikers are a minority, and the strikes as a whole are on the wane. They have been caused mostly by populist agitation taking advantage of the desperate condition of the farmer." Mr. Bliven also brought up the monstrosity of plowing under perfectly good crops when twenty-five million people are starving, and said that the farmer clearly realizes this...
...capital is invested in licensed property there is no retreat. When the W. C. T. U. read the Rockefeller plan, it snorted. In a sarcastic bulletin from Evanston headquarters it recalled that taking the profit out of liquor had been advocated 40 years ago by the trustbusting, anticapitalistic Populist Party. Said the W. C. T. U.: "The Populists were looked upon by the Rockefeller family as insane in 1893. And yet the younger Rockefeller presents this Populist idea as a solution to the liquor problem...
...banks. He is prepared to defend himself. Still another consideration takes away some of the exhilaration that this attack on the "money-changers" would ordinarily cause. It seems only too probable that it is being offered up as a sop to the Western wolves. Since the days of the Populist movement and before, any anti-Wall Street steps have been hailed with glee by God's countrymen. It may be that Morgan, after a widely publicized prosecution, will be fined for walking on the grass or for missing an item on his income tax report...
...Populist" (no candidate...
Small Dr. Hicks, 42, likes to wear bright shirts and bow ties, to dig in his garden. President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, he is an authority on the Populist uprising of the 1890's. With his desire to do more teaching most of his old students sympathize. He has a reputation of never letting a student go to sleep in his classroom, boasts of the athletes he has "reformed" into keen students...