Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. When Burns' name was called, Carter did more than just join in the general applause, as he had for the others. He got up and walked to the podium with the patrician boss of the Fed. There, grinning broadly, the populist Chief Executive pointedly shook hands with the rock-ribbed Republican central banker and, clasping his shoulder, offered his congratulations...
...many ways, the papers were wrong about Lindbergh from the start. Somehow the myth was always askew; up until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying...
...VANN WOODWARD, Yale historian. Complicated Carter undoubtedly is-and elusive as well. When he did choose a label for himself, however, it was that of "populist.'' In its Southern origins, populism struck roots in the best democratic tradition. Carter had legitimate claims in blood and heritage to that tradition. I would like to believe he will stick to it. If he does, the populist dogma -illustrated by automatic voter registration and overthrow of the Electoral College-may well be put to unprecedented tests...
...pluckers, singers, strummers, poets, grinners, mimes, pickers, jugglers, solo breakers, films, twangers, storytellers, dulcimer hammerers, balladeers, and at least one sidewalk artist (he draws on sidewalks) is being organized by the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, whose recent spate of profitable concerts proves its competence and artistically populist nature. Whipoorwill Productions, a group of musicians in the festival, is co-sponsoring the event along with the Music Emporium, reportedly a capitalist organization that sells instruments for profit. So with three sponsors to work efficiently and divvy up the profits...
...President's proposals for stimulating the economy, notably his emphasis on a $50 income tax rebate for millions of Americans. Instead of tax cuts, labor wants more Government spending to create jobs. Said Meany, who never lets his own $90,000 salary deter him from hurling a good, populist line: "I don't see why people in the upper brackets should get $50 that they can flip at the first headwaiter they...