Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the postinaugural uproar overshadowed Cámpora's efforts to establish a Peronist social system for his country. As first steps toward a new populist economic policy, Cámpora called for pay raises of between 10% and 50% for laborers and lower taxes on such consumer items as sugar, wine and tobacco, and warned that bank deposits would be nationalized to ensure "correct" investment policies...
YESTERDAY, the tax returns of millions of Americans came due. Former Senator Fred Harris' New Populist Action group chose yesterday as the focus for demonstrations and teach-ins in cities around the country to convince Congress to change a tax system which favors the rich...
COUNCILLOR ALFRED E. VELLUCCI, an irrepressible ham and everybody's populist, has promised to make cable television an important election issue this year. In addition to the insinuations tossed back and forth in the Council that certain people might have ulterior financial interests in bringing cable television to Cambridge, the question of privacy and surveillance via two-way cable hook-ups has been raised by People Against National Identification Cards (PANIC). As a result, the city fought a proposed MIT experiment to equip the Washington Elms housing project with cable TV and declared an 18-month moratorium on such franchises...
Rationale set forth for the present military assistance and sales programs does not stand up under close scrutiny. The principal threat to internal security is from suppressed populist forces and U.S. military aid contributes to the suppression...
...match-up was a new populist's dream: the young, independent champion of the little man against the entrenched servant of the vested interests. At least, that...