Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely selection, but the man he described began to sound remarkably like Bob Dole. Ford's Veep, he said, should be helpful in the farm states. These would be critically important for the G.O.P.'s chances, the states where the Democrats' Walter Mondale -a Minnesota populist-would surely be making hay. The President's running mate should be able to help out with the party chores. And, Dole added, the man should be able and ready to do "some of the gunslinging...
...until the first great political manager, Mark Hanna, broke the grip of the Democratic opposition. An enlightened industrialist who treated labor as a partner, Hanna directed William McKinley's 1896 presidential campaign against the Democratic populist, William Jennings Bryan ("You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"). By issuing a lot of persuasive campaign broadsides, translated into several languages for immigrants, Hanna convinced laborers as well as businessmen that Bryan's demand for the free coinage of silver would devalue the dollar. Sound money, Hanna sloganeered, would guarantee everyone a "full dinner pail." McKinley's landslide assured Republican...
...characteristics of a new play being tried out on the road before its Broadway opening. The reviews were generally good but not overwhelming. In swings to Manchester, N.H., Washington, B.C., Atlanta, and Charleston, W. Va., the nominee shored up his liberal credentials (actually, he prefers to call them populist), attacked the Republicans as corrupt, incompetent and insensitive, and referred to the "Nixon-Ford Administration." He evoked applause from an American Bar Association audience when he vowed "to take a new broom to Washington and do everything possible to sweep the house of Government clean...
...Sullivan's day, is "every boy and every gal" born "either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative." Few Democrats any longer want to describe themselves as liberal, and even Reagan has schweikered the simon purity of his conservatism. Fuzzy designations like independent and moderate and populist are more fashionably worn by politicians now. A change is long overdue on the nation's editorial pages. Editors ought to go for the quality of a columnist's reporting and judgments, not for the musty label he wears...
Tanaka's folksy ways and humble origins appealed then to the press and public alike. Earthy in speech and impatient in manner (the Japanese, he once said, "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government...