Word: populist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status group-"a kind of populist antagonism to any elite." To the now defunct Facts Forum, a Texas mouthpiece for the late Joe McCarthy, the enemy was plain: "The American respectables, the socially pedigreed, the culturally acceptable, the certified gentlemen and scholars, dripping with college degrees...
...creek valley, and the silence is broken only by the howl of timber wolves. There Orval Faubus, prematurely born and weighing only 4 Ibs., "growed like a weed" in the hardest of all soil. There Orval learned about politics from his father, "Uncle Sam" Faubus, a sort of mountain Populist. Last week in the Ozark woods, Uncle Sam, crippled from arthritis but still scratching a living from his hillside farm, mused on his son's fame. "Little Orval," said J. Sam Faubus, "he was different to most boys. Kids like to get into mischief, but all he ever...
Wright Patman, nursing (as the Christian Science Monitor noted) "an old-fashioned Populist's suspicion of Eastern bankers," unloosed the first salvo. Opening a subcommittee inquiry into U.S. monetary policy, Patman explained that the hearings were justified by "the danger that the tight money policy may wreck the economy." He attacked the Federal Reserve Board for raising its discount rate (i.e., the fee charged by the Federal Reserve system on loans to member banks) from i^% to 3% over the last 20 months (TIME, Sept. 10). By thus restricting credit, rumbled Patman, the Federal Reserve Board has driven farmers...
Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...
...warehouseman, building contractor and mule trader, whose bouncing, irrepressible daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate for President. George ran for the vacant place, and won. On Nov. 22, 1922 Walter George took his seat in the U.S. Senate, has been there ever since...