Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Populist Roots. Patman's tireless advocacy of easier credit long ago gained him renown as "the last of the great Populists." The Populist fallacy-the bigger the money supply, the more for everybody-lost its national appeal after the election of 1896. but strains of it persist in the rural America where Patman has his roots. He was born in Patman's Switch,* Texas, the son of a struggling farmer. He earned enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present...