Word: populists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece, despite the Communist-led (| EAM's bitter boycott of the nation's first elections in ten years, some 70% of the electorate voted. Under the eyes of British troops and Allied observers, they gave the Populist (Royalist) Party an edge over the Republican (center) coalition. Spokesmen for the EAM. which a year ago had seemed unquestionably Greece's most popular faction, blustered: "There'll be another round...
...idealist interpretations. What is the harm in knowing how much real estate George Washington possessed? And why not admit that Robert Morris was an iron manufacturer and a West Indian trader? If we know these facts, and others like them, we can begin to understand the animus of Jacksonian, Populist, Bryanite and Bull Moose debtor classes against many things that have been done in the name of the Constitution. The economic interpretation is one key to history. And mark it well...
With horns blowing and a sound truck blaring Dixie, the caravan circled the Capitol twice, then halted at a statue of oldtime Populist Demagogue Thomas E. Watson. A student jammed a wax bust of Talmadge over the statue's head. Up jumped Cheerleader William Malone and bellowed through his megaphone "Are we afraid of Talmadge?" The mob roared: "Hell...
...Full-bearded Candidate Arlon B. ("Cyclone") Davis, son of the late, famed Populist Leader Cyclone Davis, who campaigned in an Uncle Sam suit of red-&-white striped pants, blue jacket, with a tall beaver bonnet, and told Texans he would "eat earthworms, drink branch water, and sleep on Johnson grass hay" to get Lee O'Daniel out of office...
...wave of socialist, reformist thinking that swept the western U.S. farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as an extravaganza of what is now called Fascism, only in ancient stage Roman costume. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, gave readers in 1888 a more plausible picture of a future State Socialism which in technological details at least radio, television, movies was remarkably prophetic...