Word: populists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk-pounding best by Texas Democrat Wright Patman two weeks ago, was an expected but more than usually hyperbolic condemnation of William McChesney Martin. At each of his 18 yearly appearances before congressional committees, Martin has been routinely scourged for his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board, which Populist Patman blames for tight money and high interest rates. This year Patman has plenty of company. More critics than ever, ranging from academe to the new Administration, are taking aim at the nation's central bank...
...alliances with other guerrilla generals had to be entered into with a measure of mistrust. This is particularly true of Zapata's relations with Villa, whose army of drifters, muleskinners, railroad laborers and bandits were "more a force of nature than of politics." Like Zapatismo, Villismo was a populist movement. But unlike Zapata's farmers, Villa's hordes had few fixed aims...
Some old Senate oaks were cut down. His age, liberalism and prolonged absences from Oklahoma frustrated the fourth-term bid of Mike Monroney, 66, the industrious populist who has been the leading aviation specialist in the Senate. He was beaten by Republican ex-Governor Henry Bellmon, 47. Much the same factors conspired to defeat Alaska's Ernest Gruening, 81, who campaigned so lackadaisically that he lost the Democratic primary...
...Midwest (Turner in Wisconsin, Beard in Indiana, Parrington in Kansas), all of them came of age at a time when the balance of power and influence was shifting from the effete East to the still raw and resentful Midwest. The financial panic of 1893 was in the making. The Populist movement was galvanizing Westerners and farm folk everywhere into a struggle against big money and big-city interests...
...election. A few of the McCarthy stalwarts, however, are boycotting Morse as a result of his strong endorsement of Vice President Humphrey. Nevertheless, Morse supporters are counting on McCarthy-style house-to-house campaigning, along with some heavy spending on TV & advertising to pull Oregon's old populist through the toughest campaign he has ever fought...