Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress in 1936, has been an advocate of farm subsidies and opponent of liberalizing food-stamp programs. Ohio's Hays, serving his 14th term, highhandedly controlled many congressional fringe benefits, allocating office space and supervising House employees. Patman is the dean of House Democrats, an old-style populist who rails against "big bankers" and champions low interest rates...
...nameless suburbs west of the Hudson, where high school and football and the prom is still important. But when the Elks member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...
...Each other." 48. Eliminate them. More pet food for people. 49. 27 per cent. 50. President Ford, addressing the Future Farmers of America. 51. They instructed their servants to see that the clubs' garbage went to the poor. 52. Shirley Temple Black,ambassador to Ghana. 53. Mary Lease, Kansas populist, 1890. 54. "We want beer!" 55. Changing his habits would be bad for morale. 56. "They can learn so quickly with their hands they are like monkeys." 57. Gross National Happiness. 58. Richard Whitney; the New York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take...
...same political techniques I used in the 1970 Governor's race," says Carter, "a minimum of expenditures and a maximum of contact with voters." He plans on 250 days of campaigning next year, during which he will rely on a savvy brand of political toughness underneath his populist, courtly charm. When a Washington reporter asked him last week if, considering the odds against him, he was not really running for Vice President, Carter replied evenly: "I'm not interested in the vice presidency, but I am very interested in the selection process. I intend...
...believe the Republican Party now has a historic opportunity to establish itself as the party of idealism and reform. The populist Republican movements following previous national scandals and in the early part of this century provided the leadership, and more important the example, for subsequent national reforms...