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Word: populist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beginning with the 41st Congress (1869-71), the South sent 20 Negroes to the House. The last to serve: Republican Representative George H. White of North Carolina, twice elected (1897-1901) by a Populist-Republican fusion of Negroes and whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Last week on the back of a cigarette box, Sophocles Venizelos' new government (Greece's 18th since liberation), a Liberal-Populist-Social Democrat coalition, looked fine. It totted up to 158 seats. But ECA officials had lost patience with cabinet shuffling. At week's end ECA and State Department officials announced a slash in Greek assistance funds. "This action," said a Department spokesman, "is based upon the conclusion, after careful consideration and analysis, that the rate of progress in the Greek program has not been sufficient to allow complete and effective utilization of the amount originally contemplated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Kani Politiki | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals. Last week the coalition broke up, largely because of fat, fatuous Dino Tsaldaris, onetime Premier who served as Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister in the Diomedes cabinet. For weeks he had been on the stump, campaigning for the impending Greek national elections; he had infuriated the Liberals, had antagonized Marshal Alexander Papagos and War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos by loudly claiming credit for his own Populist party for the victory over the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: War & Work | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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