| 单词 | greenback party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreenback party Greenback party n. (also with lower-case initial) U.S. Politics (now historical) a party which opposed the shift back to gold-based currency and advocated government control of the monetary system, with greenbacks (sense 3) as the sole currency.The party later merged with another and changed its name to the Greenback-Labor party. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties Liberty Party1705 republican1782 republican1799 prohibition party1855 Greenback party1875 Christian Right1947 religious right1973 1863 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 12 Sept. 2/3 The greenback Custom House party took the opposite ground.] 1875 N.Y. Times 12 Mar. 7/4 (heading) The ‘Greenback’ party. A national convention of fifty-five delegates to form a new party on the basis of greenbacks. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 26 July Hon. Charles Jenkins, twice candidate of the Greenback party in Ohio for Governor. 1946 National Geographic Mag. July 3/1 In that year, however, the Democrat and Greenback parties joined to form the Fusionists and succeeded in getting some candidates into office. 1963 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 30 158/1 Even when the latter [party] combined with the Greenback party, its showing was so bad as to permanently destroy it. 2000 M. E. Curtin Black Prisoners iv. 72 The Greenback party believed that monetary inflation would alleviate the problems of working people. < as lemmas |
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