Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of small, dirt poor farmers met in a ratty, ramshackle cabin in Lampassas County, Texas, to discuss their future. Those men and women, the founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when...
DIED. Lee Metcalf, 66, liberal, three-term Democratic Senator from Montana; of natural causes; in Helena, Mont. An archetypical Western populist who was respected by his senatorial peers as an orator and constitutional expert, Metcalf was a strong advocate of bills favoring consumer, environmental and labor causes...
Fogel said that Carter follows "middle of the road Democratic policies with a slight populist tinge...
...skilled at off-balance questions that evoke unexpected answers, was asking a CIA witness: "You're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" Barbara Walters once felt entitled to ask the President-elect on-camera if he and Rosalynn would share a White House double bed (Carter, being a populist, didn't say it was none of her business, or the public...
...from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like Lenin's urging an assault on the Winter Palace...