Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, Carter had to confront himself-surely one of his most difficult tasks. He is at least two people in budget matters. He is the parsimonious Depression-ridden small-town boy, the self-made millionaire out to work and save and waste not. But he is, too, the evangelical populist, bora again to minister to the needy. The contention of these two Jimmy Carters has confounded the experts for a year because a different Carter seemed to win out on different days...
...scooped his own news by disclosing his major legislative plans for the coming year. Nor were there any eloquent phrases; that is simply not his style. Conservatives could grumble about his revived talk of creating "voluntary" restraints on wages and prices. Liberals could complain that many of his populist campaign calls for aiding the poor and rebuilding the cities had apparently vanished...
That realization has come hard to Populist Carter, who, in the words of one top adviser, "has a block about Big Business." But it is a natural enough view for his Secretary of the Treasury, W. (for Werner) Michael Blumenthal, who, after a rocky beginning in his post, has in the past few months gained clear pre-eminence among the President's economic aides. Blumenthal is a former Big Businessman himself?he was chairman of Bendix Corp. before he came to Washington?and, though he has never been fully accepted by corporate leaders as one of their own, he knows...
Radical newspapers of both the left and right pointed out that the populist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho had been condemned by the Socialists and moderate officers for condoning distribution of army weapons to leftist workers...
...century later the cause of the small farmer is still alive. Curiously enough, the major source of controversy is a law passed six years after the Populist heyday, the Reclamation Act of 1902. This legislation created a federal Reclamation Service to build dams, reservoirs, and canals to irrigate dry lands in 17 western states; today approximately 12 million acres are irrigated by federally stored and transported water. The Act also contained provisions limiting ownership of federally irrigated farm land to 160 acres per family member, and requiring that owners of irrigated land live within 50 miles of their farms...