Word: greenbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greenbacks & Compounds. In 1878, Dan, who had something of his mother's radicalism in him, ran for the Massachusetts legislature as candidate of the Greenback and Workingmen's Parties. When he spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION...
...Greenback Party: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer from Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 59, maintenance man in a South Bend lathe factory. Founded in 1874, its present program might be summarized as follows: The way to stop boom-bust cycles is just print money when it is needed...
...Indianapolis, the Greenback Party, established in 1874 to fight for "a sound money system," announced its 1948 nominees: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer of Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 58, a maintenance man in a South Bend, Ind. lathe factory...
Slivers & Martyrs. Other third parties have been more successful in nonpresidential years. The Greenback Party, which clamored for cheap money, elected 15 Congressmen in the off year of 1878, but could garner only 307,306 votes for its presidential candidate in 1880. The Populists of 1890, riding a storm of discontent among bankrupt farmers and laborers ("The makers of clothes are underfed; the makers of food are underclothed"), elected nine Representatives and four Senators, but could poll only 1,000,000 votes in 1892 for James B. Weaver...
...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...