Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue label had never been quite accurate; he has long been far more than that. Indeed his position papers on tax reform and defense spending are the most carefully reasoned and detailed of any candidate. But McGovern's early (1963) and persistent all-out opposition to the U.S. role in Viet Nam gave him far more punch last week than the other Democratic contenders -nearly all of whom sharply assailed Nixon's re-escalation of the air war. Campaigning hard in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, McGovern drew repeated ovations as he branded the Administration's new bombings "tragic...
...approval, the store was sold for $12.6 million in stock to Edward Carter's Broadway-Hale group of Los Angeles. The deal swallowed one of the nation's few remaining well-known independent merchants, though the prestigious Bergdorf store will keep a separate identity and its own label. The FTC evidently decided that any attempt to block the sale, on the grounds that it reduced competition, might cause a further decline along New York's still chic but troubled Fifth Avenue...
...nicest thing anyone can say about a Democratic presidential candidate this year is to call him a populist. Not all the candidates like the appellation. George McGovern-as populist a candidate as there is, left of George Wallace-and Scoop Jackson shun the label. But the rest boast of their populist credentials whenever they can. Wallace plays up his poor-country-boy origins in the Deep South; Humphrey points to his populist record over the years. While he was still in the race, John Lindsay tried to project himself as an "urban populist." Ed Muskie held off for a while...
Populism is a label that covers disparate policies and passions: among many others, New Deal reforms, consumer rage against business, ethnic belligerence. Often it is merely a catch phrase. Yet it describes something real: the politics of the little guy against the big guy-the classic struggle of the haves against the have-nots or the have-not-enoughs. The conflict was softened by the belief in permanent American prosperity and submerged by the global traumas of the past three decades. Now that the U.S. is looking inward once again, and learning that its wealth is not limitless, populism...
...statewide busing referendum, 54% found it "respectable" to vote for Wallace, while only 14% voted for Jackson. Nonetheless, the racist image continues to haunt Wallace. Among those who did not vote for him, 53% still think of him as racist, 34% say he is too extreme, and 26% label him a one-issue candidate...