Word: populist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed alone. His father, a lawyer and later an obstreperous Populist Congressman, died when Charles was 21, and long before that had become estranged from Charles's schoolteacher mother. In the strange confraternity of barnstormers, few were really intimate, and none had a home-they met only over coffee in shacks near the local airport, briefly shared rooms in some nearby boardinghouse. In this rough camaraderie of essential strangers, the young Lindbergh was addicted to practical jokes, which for those who lack a sense of real human contact are often a last attempt to communicate. He put snakes...
...could indeed-if not exactly in the way that the ex-boxer from Barbour County anticipates. As a self-declared Populist, Wallace has a slick, simplistic charisma. He appeals to Southerners-and some Northerners as well-who are anti-L.B.J., anti-Big Government, anti-high taxes, anti-intellectual and anti-civil rights. Yet, for all his hopes of hurting the incumbent Democratic Administration, Wallace's campaign next year will in all probability boost Lyndon Johnson's prospects of reelection...
...will probably turn his decision mainly on the tight-money problem. A shortage of mortgage money has sent the housing industry into a tailspin (see U.S. BUSINESS), shaking up businessmen in a dozen allied fields and clouding the outlook for the entire private sector of the economy. A Western Populist with an instinctive distaste for high interest rates, Johnson in the past two weeks has ordered federal agencies to pump $750 million into mortgage markets. Moreover, many bankers detect signs of a gradual loosening-up of money, are hopeful that 1967 will bring real improvement...
Truman's words fell like thunder claps on banks and stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo, but their impact was most pronounced in Washington-particularly on the man in the White House. Lyndon Johnson is something of a Populist who agrees with Truman that money should be easier. But-as with so many other things lately-he has done nothing to offset the rising rates except talk about them. Truman's prodding stung him sharply. "I, too, am concerned about the interest-rate rise and what it means to many Americans," protested the President, but he denied...
...Populist potentates who had done much to lead the poor and exploited into the affluent society, it was time to step down. Grizzled, rotund David Dubinsky, for 34 turbulent years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and bluff, white-thatched James G. Fatten, fiery head of the National Farmers Union for the past quarter-century, both retired last week, turning over their flourishing organizations to less flamboyant men noted more for managerial than messianic talents...