Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican Senators given a perfect voting record by the AFL-CIO, has the support of organized labor and the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, the state's anti-gun-control lobby. Democrat Pete Flaherty, 49,mayor of Pittsburgh is a trustbusting populist who opposes busing, abortion and amnesty. While schweiker appeals to many urban Demacrats. Flaherty has a following among suburban Republicans. With issues in such confusion , Flaherty has tried to tar Swhweiker with Watergate even though Nixon and demanded the president's Resignation last May.Schweiker Leads...
...little trouble winning re-election had he not voted against a constitutional amendment to ban busing. That hurt him in Oklahoma City, where schools are under court order to integrate. Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson, 55, a former Congressman, tools round the state in his own car preaching a vaguely populist gospel in contrast to Bellmon's support for big business...
Echeverria, who still has two years remaining of his six-year term, thus far has had little luck in reforming the system. His liberal, populist speeches have alarmed the rich and the conservative politicians and businessmen whose support he needs to make real reforms. Yet he has been unsuccessful in winning over the left, which considers his rhetoric hypocritical, since he has done little to bring about the social reforms that he so eloquently calls for. No one expects much change before his term expires, if then. Those who consider themselves potential kidnap victims-the rich and the powerful...
Lindbergh's father, a populist Republican Congressman from Minnesota, had taught him to be totally self-reliant-"One boy's a boy; two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all," Lindbergh fondly quoted him as saying-and the son always had a vigorous contempt for the herd mentality. Itching to fly ever since he first saw an airplane as a child, Lindbergh spent a year and a half at the University of Wisconsin. Then, unable to sit any longer in a classroom, he enrolled in a flying school in Nebraska...
SANDBURG'S LINCOLN (NBC. Friday, Sept. 6, 10-11 p.m. E.D.T.) is, alas, faithful to the spirit of its source, a poet's exercise in mythmaking rather than a balanced and entirely persuasive biography. The Lincoln created by the populist bard has been the unacknowledged source of all the mass media's grapplings with this most enigmatic of great American leaders. Now we are once again in the presence of a figure too compassion ate, charitable, humble and wise to be quite credible-the commoner as saint, but with the sanctity cleverly humanized by just the right...